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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas, Markie Post, Jo Ann Pflug. It was directed by Alan Crosland, Bernard McEveety, Bruce Kessler, Don Medford, Larry Elikann. By 20th Century Fox. The regular list price is $29.98. Sells new for $18.15. There are some available for $8.79.
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2 comments about The Fall Guy: The Complete Season 1, Vol. 2.
  1. Item arrived very fast and in excellent condition. Really happy to be able to able to catch all these 80s series all over again.


  2. The second half of the first season of the Fall Guy pretty much follows the same pattern as the first. Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) works as a stunt man but moonlights as a bounty hunter to pay the bills. He gets his assignments from Samantha Jack (Jo Ann Pflug). Working along side him is his cousin Howie Munson (Douglas Barr). Also on hand when needed is Jody Banks (Heather Thomas).

    In this half of the season, Colt takes on a shady manager in the world of women's wrestling, attempts to save a friend's son from the mob, helps an old friend escape her crooked politician husband, and tracks down $5 million that was stolen from the Navy five years ago.

    The one thing that has changed is the guest stars. The first half of the season featured cameos by famous actors and actresses of the early 80's. There's only one cameo in this set, Herve Villechaize. However, that hardly matters. The stunts aren't quite as elaborate, although we do get some pretty intense skiing and awesome car chases.

    Even though this is only the second half of the season, you still get half the extras from the full season set. The last disc of the set contains a 5 minute featurette on the theme song. About the only thing interesting about it is they sing the full song. Who knew there were more verses, right?

    If you pay attention, you can get the full season set for less then the two half sets cost. Personally, I'd wait and get the entire season at once.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Larry Kenney, Bob McFadden, Earl Hammond, Lynne Lipton, Earle Hyman. It was directed by Katsuhito Akiyama. By Warner Home Video. The regular list price is $129.98. Sells new for $39.95. There are some available for $80.95.
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2 comments about Thundercats: Season 2.
  1. Awww man who does not love the Thundercats. Taking you back to the mid eighties, remembering being glued to the television every saturday morning, and later every morning before school for the re-runs. One of my favorite childhood cartoons. The discs are well organized 5 episodes I believe to a disc. The only problem I have with this item is the price, I do not understand why they have to split it uo in two sets for one season, and charge almost 100$ for the set. No matter The Thundercats are great and I would pay whatever I had to to watch this show again. It was a lot of fun watching my kids watch it.


  2. I've long waited for Thundercats to be released. Now the second season is on DVD. It's like I remember from my youth. Then I found it fantastic and now too.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Bruce Greenwood, Greg Kean, Arlen Dean Snyder, Casey Sander, Bo Foxworth. It was directed by Michael Switzer. By Direct Source Label. The regular list price is $5.98. Sells new for $5.97. There are some available for $4.99.
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5 comments about Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys.
  1. ideas as opiates: there's alot of unpublished stuff out there that I would like to see come to light, if possible. Obscure documentaries like, say the birth of Eric Burdon and War, or maybe the Isleys Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner, Carole King just to name a few. Or how about classic albums that weren't in Billboard's top 200...stuff you gotta drag outa the archives (if there are any) like Emerson Lake and Palmers Trilogy (how in the world did that really happen? try playing this live)that helped lay down the tracks for this overkill cliche ridden plagiarized corporation tee shirt crap we know today as popular music in this who's really black and who's really white new millenium. But back to the Beach Boys (and your pseudo interest in a cynical burned out mid aged replicant like me)$$$.....good movie about the rise and fall of the California Dream. Hippies and drugs and the end of the innocent but a major break in the career of a worth his salt actor Bruce Greenwood, the story of an unhappy and jealous father who exploits the talents of his own flesh and blood out of just pure good old-fashioned meanness. God Only Knows why anyone would set out to mentally twist such a great and inherent God given talent as Brian Wilson but hey, it happens every day right, Dr. Phil? And the ever loving Mother Wilson who sits quietly in the back seat as the twisted journey continues offering her disturbed son the one true thing she has to give...her love. Bless her pure and genuine role in this movie. What I enjoyed most was the relationship between Dennis and Brian...Dennis had the balls, Brian had the brains. Put the two together and there you have it...Summer Dreams... blowin' thru the jasmine in your mind.......


  2. Excellent momentary entertainment. The "God Only Knows" sequence is beautiful and entertaining. I've been listening to the Beach Boys ever since this film came out on TV.


  3. It's hard to believe that all of the Beach Boy's music in this TV movie has been recreated by other artists.
    Kudos to Jay Levy the musical director for an incredible job.


  4. When I purchased this DVD I was thinking this was the VH1 original movie that I saw years ago. It's not but it's not bad. The VH1 movie was better as it centered on Brian Wilson and his problems. This movie is centered on Dennis Wilson and his problems. As any Beach Boy fan knows, Brian was the genius behind the music. Dennis wasn't a real contributor to the music. He could barely play drums and wasn't much of a singer either.

    The VH1 movie was also more about the music! It showed how Brian was inspired by Phil Spector's Wall-Of-Sound production style and how Brian incorporated it to his own use starting with the album Pet Sounds.

    This movie is about Dennis and his rebel ways. The guy playing Charles Manson isn't even as good as the VH1 movie. This Manson looks like he's wearing a fake wig and beard (which he no doubt is).

    For some reason, I can't find a DVD version of the VH1 movie. I would love to have a copy of it. When it aired on VH1, I recorded it onto VHS but it has since been lost. Believe me. That was a much better version of the story of The Beach Boys.


  5. I am a Beach Boys fan. Let's get that out of the way first. I have trouble being objective about them and their music. I also have read, watched and studied many books, videos and articles about them over the last over 30 years.

    So, for me this movies was a must see based on all of that. And I kind of liked it. It is more from Dennis Wilson's point of view (or at least the writers and producers version of that) and therefore some of the other Beach Boys get short shrift. Also, the music is NOT the Beach Boys performing, however, it is pretty good ( I think former Beach Boys band member and current Brian Wilson Band member, Jeffrey Foskett had something to do with it).

    As for the movie itself: it is dramatically at least a notch better than AN AMERICAN FAMILY, which suffers from classic "Movie of the Week" syndrome: campy overacting, some ridiculous conflation of parts of the history (this one has a lot of that also) and some stupid writing. Truth is, I like both movies, God help me, because they tell the story, albeit very truncated and Hollywood versions of the story.

    If you are a true Beach Boys fan, and like me some what obsessive-compulsive and need to have everything by or about the Beach Boys, you will probably want this, if only to have fun putting it down. IF you are someone who does not know much about the Beach Boys and wants to know more, I would go for the documentary ENDLESS HARMONY instead. It too has its bias and flaws, but it features the real Beach Boys talking about their music and their life (and each other!), as well as some great rare performances and recordings.

    This is more of a dramatic "shortcut", that while not bad, is not great either. It is entertaining though, and not expensive.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Bernard Behrens, James Blendick, Eve Crawford, Lori Hallier, Walter Matthau. By Platinum Disc. The regular list price is $6.99. Sells new for $3.96. There are some available for $3.97.
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2 comments about Incident In A Small Town.
  1. When a small town attorney whose practice is failing is selected by government officials to be the means of railroading to the gallows a German soldier accused of murdering a beloved local physician, the case turns out to more complicated. The background is WWII and Germany is threatening to execute some American prisoners. Anyone in this small U.S. small town who takes on the case of a German prisoner will be villified.

    The actors in this film are uniformly excellent. In my opinion, This is Walther Matthau's outstanding role.

    Anyone will find watching this DVD most rewarding.


  2. I highly recommend this the 3rd of the Harmon Cobb/Judge Bell series of movies. Harmon (Matthau) and Judge Bell (Harry Morgan) have been law partners for a period of time, but suddenly Judge Bell must leave to help his estranged daughter handle a delicate situation. The man who raped Judge Bell's daughter is back, and before you know it the Judge is accused of murdering this man. Harmon is on the spot to defend the Judge, but the situation seems out of control as Harmon is not allowed to let anyone know of the previous rape. The Judge's daughter doesn't want her son to know the truth about his real father. The Judge's life is in the hands of Harmon and the truth about who really killed the boy's father is becoming a true mystery. This is another great trial movie, and you can slip back into the late 1940's and remember when you were a kid at a great time to be an American.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan. By Warner Home Video. The regular list price is $12.98. Sells new for $2.99. There are some available for $0.55.
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5 comments about Dreamcatcher (Full Screen Edition).
  1. Dreamcatcher wasn't a horrible movie but maybe if I had read the book I would have gotten a better feel for the film. The film is long and drawn out and never really expalins what's going on. Jason Lee's performance is what saved the film for me. Kudos also go to Thomas Jane who just appeared in the vastly superior The Mist. I guess I will read the book and then view the film again. I would say the film is for die hard King fans only.


  2. From what we've heard, quite a bit of Stephen King's DREAMCATCHER was lost in the translation from the page to the screen; but not having read it, we were free to enjoy the movie as a creature feature involving, among other things, slimy, toothy worms that issue forth, in a crescendo of blood and gas, from their victims' recta. There hasn't been this much tension generated in an `Aliens Have Come To Take Our Planet' movie since HOWARD THE DUCK! (Although we had to wonder what director Lawrence Kasdan - who made such high-toned dramas as THE BIG CHILL and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST - was thinking about as he set up the scene with the alien in the toilet.)

    Get ready for Bad Movie delirium as four friends (Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant) head up to a remote cabin in snowy Derry, Maine, as they've done every year for the last twenty years. The area, it so happens, is under paramilitary quarantine; rogue commander Morgan Freeman is trying to isolate and destroy a vicious race of galactic visitors, though decades of E.T. hunting have left him a few pennies short of a dollar. This is a heartening return to villainy for Freeman - let's not forget his breakthrough role as a heartless pimp in 1987's STREET SMART. But 1987 was a long time ago, and Freeman, working against dozens of noble past performances, just seems more irritable than usual.

    The four guys have telepathic gifts, passed on to them by Donnie Wahlberg, a mentally challenged kid they once saved from bullies. (Don't ask). Sometimes these gifts manifest themselves in interesting forms, as when Damian Lewis "calls" Thomas Jane on a handgun borrowed from ambivalent soldier Tom Sizemore. In what immediately became one of our all-time favorite mainstream forays into the surreal, the gun actually rings, and Jane chats away into it. And if you want first-class deadpan comedic genius, check out Sizemore's blandly inflected response after the call is done: "Give me back my gun."

    We also enjoyed Jason Lee's nervous-tic characterization as Beaver, who scoops peanut butter out of the jar with his finger and is never without a toothpick between his teeth; while sitting on that toilet lid to keep the alien confined, Lee must reach perilously to the floor for one of the few spilled toothpicks not floating in anal gore. Call us crude - but you just have to LOVE a scene of suspense built around fallen toothpicks and a toilet monster.

    It all eventually collapses under a barrage of exposition. Perhaps King's book explains why the alien who takes over Lewis's body is known as Mr. Gray and speaks like John Cleese, or what happens to all the alien-infected people quarantined in Derry, or why the recesses of Lewis's mind look like an overstuffed library archive (complete with X-rated fantasies filed by year).

    Adaptations of Stephen King novels are often more MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE than CARRIE - but despite King's convoluted original, what's most insane about this awesomely cack-handed crazy salad, is that seasoned screenwriters like William Goldman (MISERY) and Kasdan are responsible. In fact, the more we think about this loud, confusing, cheesily enjoyable movie, the more we have to read King's book. (Just please don't tell us it doesn't have any toilet monsters.)


  3. Warning: spoilers. Hmm, interesting. Morgan Freeman's E.T. hunter is a crispy critter, burned out from chasing E.T.s for 20 years until what would drive normal human beings insane, like the sight of an extraterrestrial, is taken for granted by him. Hmm, the government agent walks through the quarantined citizenry and tells them that everything is okay and that things will be resolved shortly and then turns around and plans for them to be eliminated. Hmm, a branch of military operations that is above all laws, disguises its identity, and answers to no one, having something to do with Blue. Hmm, the alien hunter should have quit after what happened in Montana? What the hell happened in Montana and why wasn't there anything in the news about it? Hmm, E.T.s carry a waterborne virus that infects and spreads and multiplies and shows up as a skin rash and flatulence but only grows to full force in half the populace, or, eat something that looks like red meat and your belly will bloat up and you grow a huge worm. Hmm, E.T.s can read and impose their will over human minds, mimic voices, insert false memories, read our memories, manipulate what we see and hear---what if we have already been invaded but haven't realized it because the aliens make us think we are living a normal life? Hmm, ister gay is afraid of someone who has been institutionalized and written off as being deficient. Hmm, as a boy Duddits was tormented by heartless bullies who were from privileged families and who were genetically superior. All this happens in the snowy back roads where hunters and snowmobilers go to vacation---if it could happen there it could happen anywhere. If you can make sense of all this, then you know and understand: I Duddits!


  4. This film is much better than most of the reviews claim. I do not know when it became "cool" to hate Stephen King's work, but that is the sense that I get from the negative reviews. This film is a nice spin on the "alien invasion" theme. Pay attention and don't get too lost in the "visual metaphors" that run through the film. Any true fan of sci-fi will enjoy this film. Recommended!


  5. We have this a special men in black team led by Morgan Freeman
    ( not God or the President this time out?),
    and four telepathic friends of a "retard"...
    All taking place in a forest hunting retreat
    where the aliens had the misfortune to crash.
    The government policy is nothing gets out of the zone alive.
    One of the fellows ( Jonesie) gets taken over by a gray man's
    mind control, but not completely.
    This battle is a horrible one of a Stephen King type...


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Ted Bundy, Ronald DeFeo Jr., Henry Lee Lucas, Kenneth Allen McDuff, Kenneth Bianchi. By Dark Sky Films. The regular list price is $39.98. Sells new for $27.73. There are some available for $22.00.
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3 comments about The Serial Killers.
  1. This 3 DVD set is nicely put together. 6.5 hours of hard-hitting, brutal info into the how & why, etc.

    It wouldn't be a bad idea if a few more horror writers and/or serial killer flick makers would get this DVD for the info alone, and maybe their films wouldn't suck so bad.

    Am not pushing gore here, because gore and buckets of blood (alone) do not make for a great scare flick at all, but am talking about looking into these minds here, taking the time to see what serial killers are actually about, why they do the horrifying things that they do, etc.

    The only negative is the irritating music that they keep repeating over and over and over and over... It's done after each segment. Oh man, what agony. Had to keep my finger on the volume button throughout basically. They could have also gone into each childhood a bit more (because, as you know, this is where it started, where the problem began; yes, you have the RARE bad seed now and then, but usually, very often, the serial killer's mother was a prostitute, or else there was abuse, all sorts of abuse--sometimes both).

    Other than that, this package is definitely worth getting. I don't regret paying what I paid for it.


  2. This DVD contains approximately 6.5 hours of interviews with various serial killers and one mass murderer (Ronald DeFeo Jr, who one night shot his entire family while they slept, "inspiring" the movie "The Amityville Horror"), and various law enforcement officers, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc who were involved in the cases.

    Some of the serial killers are very well-known, such as Ted Bundy, Kenneth Bianchi ("The Hillside Strangler") and Henry Lee Lucas ("The Confession Killer"), whilst others are not so well-known. The segments I personally found most interesting were those on Ronald DeFeo Jr, Ted Bundy and Kenneth Bianchi. I had previously know little about Kenneth Bianchi, and I found the descriptions of some of his murders particularly disturbing, especially those relating to the two young girls he murdered.

    As someone who has thought of myself as having good intuition in relation to people's characters, the aspect of this movie and others like it that I find most unnerving is that the majority of the killers interviewed appear quite "normal" and articulate, even gentle or docile in some cases (e.g. Arthur Shawcross, "The Monster of the Rivers"). Though admittedly, there are a few you would definitely not want to take home to meet your mother (e.g. Douglas Clark, "The Sunset Slayer")!

    Unfortunately, there is one aspect of this DVD which lets it down considerably, and that is the music. It really is just not scary, is irritating and does not suit the subject (especially that funky slap bass sound)! Furthermore, it is repeated at the beginning and end of each segment. If the DVD could somehow be reproduced with different, more appropriate music (and not repeated at the beginning and end of each segment), it would be greatly improved. Watching this DVD reinforced to me how important the soundtrack is in the overall quality of a movie or documentary.

    If you want to purchase a really good DVD about serial killers and psychopaths, I would strongly recommend "Serial Killers - Profiling the Criminal Mind" (also listed as "Serial Killers 2-Pack") which includes stories on John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson, and includes interviews with Manson, Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie Van Houten.


  3. Obviously structured to be a television series, this is a series of twelve interviews with notorious serial killers.

    This is not a slick, glamorized series. This would not be of interest for someone who wants graphic pictures of victims, or slow-motion details about the killings, the cases or a "how to." More than enough of this information comes out, but it is often relayed in a very matter-of-fact blasé tone of the killer himself - recounting it as if it were a trip to the corner store. In some respects this series does start out almost boring... but this is obviously orchestrated, to tailor it's own audience to the text, to eliminate the thrill seekers.

    What this series is: a thoughtful series of interviews with the serial killers. The focus here is not on the gruesome, but on the minds of these (mostly) men, and how their minds work - or don't as the case may be. The cumulative effect is slow and powerful. The series as a whole becomes possibly the strongest intelligent argument for the death penalty that has even been created.

    Others have noted that the music is odd, but again, by the end, the irregular rhythms and random notes echo the distorted viewpoint of the thought process of these people. Exceptionally well done - for someone seeking an in depth look at the psychology of these killers. It leave us seeing some deep similar facets: their inability to say "I killed"... but instead saying, "she got herself killed," how each of them who is able to be somewhat introspective flatly states that there is no solution for them but to be put to death, how pornography and popular culture tool sexual fantasies in this direction, and how everyday people around them were often complicit in really sickening ways.

    The series is intentionally structured to become more psychologically complex toward the end, which makes it get more interesting as it progresses. (That does not lend itself to film-making, but more to a learning/clinical process, which again, seems to be the intent, and the accomplishment here.)

    Deeply thought provoking.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh. It was directed by Guy Hamilton, John Glen, Lewis Gilbert, Martin Campbell, Roger Spottiswoode. By MGM (Video & DVD). The regular list price is $124.96. Sells new for $49.99. There are some available for $30.00.
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5 comments about The James Bond Collection, Vol. 1 (Special Edition).
  1. Great, they brought out more James Bond. As if the original Dr. No theme wasn't annoying enough before, now it sounds twice as good (or bad if you don't like the music). And if you dont want to spend more than $100.00 each set, watch Spike TV during Thanksgiving - they repeat all the James Bond movies so much it really gets on your nerves. Good stories, the movies weren't so good...


  2. Although I'm not sure who's at fault, I ordered all three volumes of the James Bond Collections, from three different sellers. This seller failed to include the box for the set, which angered me. I was pretty sure that it did not say in his description that the box wasn't included! He is purchasing the movies individually and selling them as a box set (to command more money)and to me that is very misleading! I wanted to have all three box sets and ended up with 7 seperate Bond movies without the box! I won't ever buy from this seller again!


  3. Ok, this is the best set in this collection in my opinion. The movies are some of my favorites in the series. You have 2 great Sean Connery movies in Dr. No and Goldfinger; probably the best Roger Moore movie in The Spy Who Loved Me, and a great Brosnan film in Goldeneye (How can you not like Sean Bean as a bad guy) The problem I have with this collection is the quality and the price. While watching these movies I noticed, especially on the older movies, the poor picture quality. I felt like I was watching a movie on 1960's film. I also had disk problems with this set. My copy of Goldfinger would skip as the menus came up. The only other physical problem with this set is that on my copy (and most copies) of Tomorrow Never Dies there was a little camera icon at the top for like half of the movie. Now, you can usually get rid of it by pushing clear, but it is still very annoying. My biggest problem with this set is the price. It costs about $100 for Volume 1 and the other 2 sets can be upwards of $160. That means to have all the bond movies in this set could cost you around $400. I would recommend the new Ultimate Edition (UE) James Bond collection to anyone looking at this set. The picture and disk quality of the (UE) are SOOOO much better, and you can buy all 4 sets for a little over $200.00 total. So to sum up this is a good set, but the UEs are a MUCH better value and the quality is considerable better. My advice spend your money on the Ultimate Editions.


  4. i don't know if anybody mentioned this(ihaven't read all the reviews)but why is it these movies aren't released in box sets according to the indiviual actors who played the secret agent?you know,a sean connery set,a roger moore set,etc.for years i've been yelling for a connery set(whom i consider the best,though they're all good)but to no avail.as many times as they've released these,you'd think they would've done so.therefore i was dissapointed when these collections came out.please give us a chance to pick the bonds we like,without throwing them all together.


  5. I recieved this and the box wasn't even the one shown and the 7 movies that are included where scratched up and the movies weren't the right ones the movies should have been Dr. No Goldfinger, Man With the Golden Gun, The spy who loved me, License To KIll, Goldeneye and Tommorow Never Dies. The ones That I got where Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live and let Die, For two eyes only, License to kill and Tommorow never dies and goldeneye. I was mad.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Edmund. By Warner Home Video. The regular list price is $14.98. Sells new for $4.48. There are some available for $3.44.
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5 comments about Full Metal Jacket.
  1. The movie came earlier than predicted. It came in brand new condition at an amazing price nowhere else I looked could even touch. R. Lee is amazing, and this movie is an instant favorite. The Bluray makes even the most shocking or violent scenes so clear and beautiful it's impossible to look away. I would definitely buy from this seller again.


  2. Full metal Jacket is really two movies in one. The first movie is a very realistic journey through the boot camp process for the marines. The reason why its so realistic is that Kubrick found a DI who could act and let the process run as if it were real. The only flaw in it is the murder-suicide at the end. Its just not realistic. It would have been more belevable as an ordinary suicide. The other thing that didn't quite catch is that DIs and the process don't just punish the weak. They go after the strong ones too.

    The second half of the movie is worthless. The main character is suddenly made a journalist in Vietnam for a handful of pointless scences hanging around base and then just as suddenly is pushed into fighting in an infantry squad in Hue. All the realism of the early part of the film is lost. Suddenly we have Rambo running around with the big gun that never needs ammunition. We have marines advancing into a city of Hue that looks like Stalingrad. While Hue might have looked like this after the marines cleared the city, its kind of a major mistake to make it look like this BEFORE they cleared it. Everything about the "combat" scenes is wrong.

    And what does everything build to. Pity for a female Vietnamese sniper. The leads spend more time whining, crying and acting like idiots over the sniper than they did over their own dead.

    The only positive thing I can say about the second half the film is that its missing all the unrealistic "soldiers talk about the war" scenes that fill most every other movie about vietnam.

    Watch the film for the first half and shut it off when they get to Vietnam.

    As far as blu-ray goes, this film doesn't deserve it and doesn't benefit from it. It might as well have been on DVD.


  3. Full Metal Jacket is one of the best, and most powerful war films of all time.

    If you don't "get it", read the novel it was based on:
    "The Short-Timers", by Gustav Hasford.

    If you've read the book, you'll understand the way the movie seems to "jump" from one setting to the next, mentioned in other reviews here.

    Short-Timers consists of three acts, "The Spirit of the Bayonet", "Body Count", and "Grunts." The first act is fairly accurately reproduced in the movie, but the second and third acts are combined, and the film loses some plot clarity as a result. In the book, you'll notice that the narative style begins in a simple, direct, and at times brutal manner, and becomes more introspective as the plot moves into the second and third parts ... while the main character, initially a passive observer, becomes increasingly involved. The movie reproduces this narative, enhanced by the imagery that is trademark Kubrick. You will be immersed in this film.

    I'm by no means suggesting the ol' "the book was better" here ... this is a terrific film, and it stands on its own merits. However, for those who found the plot confusing ... read the book, you'll better understand the imagery of the film, the transformation of the central character, and why the film ends the way that it does. I can't help but wonder what this film might have looked like had Kubrick maintained the "three act" format of the book ...

    Buy the film, you won't be disappointed. Buy Hasford's book as well, and you'll be back watching the film again several times over.



  4. This is an EXCELLENT Blu-Ray conversion of this classic Kubric movie, must see on Blu-Ray with the remastering 1080P quality and all the special features. Great buy!


  5. This film is very close to the nerve centers of practically all Marines because it so very realistically depicts their experiences in either boot camp and/or Vietnam. There isn't one that didn't feel a mysterious tingle in the back of his neck and a shiver down his spine when he first heard Lee Ermy calling cadence in the boot camp segment of the movie. Nuf said about the film except to say that the video and audio transfer to blu-ray is outstanding. The anamorphic treatment that allows it to fit 16X9 TVs is excellent. Makes it seem even more realistic. Buy It.


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Posted in Bruce Lee (Thursday, January 8, 2009)

It stars Chin Han, Nestor Carbonell, Eric Roberts, Ritchie Coster, Anthony Michael Hall. It was directed by Christopher Nolan. By Warner Home Video. Sells new for $36.90.
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It stars Raquel Lee, Josh Peck, John Kassir, Camryn Walling, Mathew Botuchis. It was directed by Mary Schmid, Bruce Gowers. By Nickelodeon. The regular list price is $16.99. Sells new for $11.50. There are some available for $11.59.
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5 comments about The Amanda Show, Vol. 1 - Amanda, Please / The Amanda Show, Vol. 2 - The Girls' Room.
  1. I seen What I like about you, the show is compared to The Gilmore Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Related. Val and Holly are like Lorelai and Rory Gilmore and Buffy and Dawn Summers. Jennie Garth has the greatest resemblance of The O.C.'s Mischa Barton. Amanda Bynes has the greatest resemblance of 7th Heaven Jessica Biel, Katie Holmes and The O.C.'s Rachel Bilson. Tom Cruise can mistake her for Katie Holmes. I always think Amanda Bynes should of married Tom Cruise not Katie Holmes. Nick Zano has the greatest resemblance of Angel's David Boreanaz. Vince and Holly are like Buffy and Angel on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Wesley Jonathan is compared to Will Smith. If he ever did an action movie he would done Bad Boys, better than him. Leslie Erin Grossman is compared to Urma Thurman. That's no lie, she really does look like Urma Thurman. Allison Munn has the greatest resemblance of Paris Hilton and Grammy award winner Christina Aguilera. Dan Cortese looks like N'Sync Lance Bass. Tell you the truth Justin Timberlake can mistake him for Lance Bass, that is no joke. Lauren and Tina are like the cynical and worried best friends of Val and Holly. Amanda Bynes might someday win an Oscar anytime soon. If she did, she never forget where she came from. If Amanda Bynes ever was on Buffy, she probably would have gone for Angel or Spike. If Amanda Bynes was on American Pie, she probably would have gone for Steve Stifler. Amanda Bynes has whole new road to go through. Jennie Garth looks like she was eighteen or ninteen. Even though she is 33 she looks like she looks like she was eighteen or ninteen than 33. Amanda Bynes might be ninteen she looks like she was 24 or 25.


  2. OK, OK, I'm twenty three years old. I was introduced to this show, via my friend's four year old daughter, but now I watch it for my own enjoyment purposes. The show is hillarious, the best thing to come out of Nickelodeon since You Can't Do THat On Television, which is greatly missed I might add... when are they going to release that on DVD?
    First of all Amanda Bynes is a cute teen chick, without all the BS surrounding her, like dear, does she have a studio album yet? I don't think so! She has a very lively persona, that is perfect to center this sketch comedy show for kids around. Good crazy fun. Instead of selling sex, she sells fart jokes and country hick-billy jokes, very well. Her numerous recurring characters are all a bunch of fun, and the supporting cast is also very talented, the Drake and Josh kids are pretty hip as well in their own show. Great for kids of all ages.

    P.S> to the kids who don't remember You Can't DO That On Television, I'm very sorry. Nickelodeon stopped airing it about twelve years ago, but it was the most rock and roll show ever! Anyway, The Amanda Show doesn't air new shows either, I'm well aware... but at least there are still repeats and a DVD. I am happy to know that there are still hip shows for kids, because I really get scared sometimes for the future crop of kids, and a pussified, saturated world.


  3. Had it not been for my kids watching The Amanda Show on satellite tv I would not have caught an episode of the Amanda Show and found out why they were always laughing so hard. I have to admit that her comedic timing and facial expressions are truly entertaining and off the wall. Amanda is an inspiration to my youngest daughter, who hopes to carry as much spunk and charisma as Amanda does. It's good to see that good clean fun is still being offered these days and I would highly recommend these DVDs for family viewing and a hardy escape from the work-a-day world into hilarious hijinx.


  4. I LOVE THIS SHOW. . ITS SOO CUTE AND AMANDA BYNES IS HILLARIOUS!!! ITS FUNNY I JUST STARTED THE SERIES AND I BELIEVE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW BUT JUST DISCOVERED THE REPEATS AIRED ON THE NEW CW18 IN ORLANDO FOR ABOUT A MONTH. IM SOO HOOKED ON THIS SHOW I RECORD IT BECAUSE IM ALWAYS WORKING AT THE TIME IT AIRS ON TELEVISON. I LOOK FORWARD TO VIEWING WHEN I GET HOME. I LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS ESPECIALLY LAUREN SHE IS TOO FUNNY AND HER ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE IS OUT OF THIS WORLD. TINA CAN SING!! I WONDER IF THATS FOR REAL IF SO MAYBE SHE SHOULD THINK ABOUT SIGNING ON TO A LABEL ?? (HINT,HINT) GARY - WOW HIS BODY IS SEXY . . VINCE HES SUCH A CUTIE BUT A LITTLE AIR HEADED, AND VAL - WOW I USED TO WATCH HER IN 90210 . .I LIKE A LOT BETTER IN THIS SERIOUS , SHES NOT AS STUCK UP. . ANYWAY THE SHOW IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT!!!


  5. I just love these dvds they are awesome. I just love watching Amanda , Drake and Josh on these dvds they are all awesome working together.


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