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February 11th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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“Tuck Everlasting” is the (near-perfect) movie adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s classic new about a young girl who meets a family immortals. If you are looking for a nice family movie or care for anecdote, Disney’s “Tuck Everlasting” is a radiant selection for your viewing pleasure.

THE STORY:

Winnie Foster, daughter of a wealthy couple, ventures off into her family’s woods one day and comes across a mysterious boy, Jesse, and his family, the Tucks, who seem to be “lost in time.” Feeling trapped herself in her “too prim and great” for her family, Winnie feels liberated with the carefree lifestyle of the Tucks. However, the Tuck family secret is something that can very well, and nearly does, bring Winnie’s world crumbling down in front of her very eyes.

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THE DISCUSSION:

“Tuck Everlasting” has long been at the top of the list of books the school system loves to have students read, and for very suitable reason. The anecdote, very carefree but at times a shrimp deep and occasionally dismal, provides valid discussion fodder on issues such as life and changing society values. Winnie’s conflict with her parents’ values as well as the ramifications of “eternal life” originate stout fodder for discussion and meditation.

Overall, the movie contains all the tall things you could peek for in both a adore tale and a family movie. The relationship between Winnie and Jesse should have most couples all “warm and fuzzy” (or ill to their gut) . The movie overall is very light and easy and should be delectable for anyone. The violence level is kept to a minimum and the “darker” elements of the legend are tame enough to where it shouldn’t upset anyone.

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THE ADAPTATION:

Movies based on books are double-edged swords. They either destroy the “meaning” of the books they ogle to praise or they themselves become masterpieces (like Harry Potter and Jurassic Park) . “Tuck Everlasting” falls into the latter category. I myself read Babbitt’s book in elementary and though it’s been 16 years I peaceful remember the book quite well. As far as I can announce, this movie was about as legal an adaptation as you can bag. The main themes and event sequences are translated well onto the great cloak. Fans of the book should relish this movie.

BEST SCENES:

1.Miles’ legend. This is a very noteworthy scene that touches very well on the “eternal life” state. This scene could easily score an award.

2.Jail Fracture. Hilarious scene!!!

3.Tuck’s Talk with Winnie

4.Jesse and Winnie’s adventures

THE VERDICT:

Overall, this movie is a enormous choice for young couples on a date or family’s looking for a nice, desirable movie. Yes indeed my friends, it’s a chick flick!!! Luxuriate In.

Highly Recommended

Tuck Everlasting definatly deserves five stars! It is the most magical movie of our time. The narrative is about fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster, (Alexis Bledel), who is a threat about finding out the secret of the Tucks. She meets Jesse, their youngest son, (Johnathan Jackson), and they drop in fancy. He decides to announce her their secret, that they drank from the spring and can never die. They will live forever. He asks her to drink and live forever with him. She must determine whether or not to drink. Should she live forever with the person she has fallen deeply in savor with? Or should she live and die, honest as people are ment to? In the destroy, she is faced with this decision. Winnie has to settle if she loves Jesse enough to live eternity with him and leave everything she has unhurried.

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This movie is a perfect family film. It is also perfect for a date. For anyone who has ever had a dream. It’s the mystical fairy narrative every girl dreams of. A stand out cast and an excillent movie. This movie will leave you thinking about it for days. Tuck Everlasting is one of the best movies of all time. Every girl will net herself wishing she was Winnie. Magically romantic and makes you feel so valid inside at parts. Anyone will absolutly topple in esteem with this movie!

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Stream J’Accuse Online

February 11th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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There were plenty of anti-war films before Gance released J’ACCUSE in 1919. Numerous short films were made circa 1911-1915 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the American Civil War (DRUMMER OF THE 8th from the CIVIL WAR FILMS OF THE Quiet ERA is a prime example) culminating in D.W. Griffith’s continually controversial THE BIRTH OF A NATION. There is also a unbelievable Thomas Ince produced feature from 1916 called CIVILIZATION but it has yet to produce it to DVD. Being a master of the film medium, I’m definite that Gance must have been familiar with these movies especially BIRTH for technique and CIVILIZATION for train. He took what came before him and made the first expansive anti-war fable that detached resonates today.

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J’ACCUSE was conceived on a broad scale but like most astronomical anti-war movies, the film is primarily intimate as it deals with the personal relationships of a handful of characters that forge a articulate bond with the audience. It is this that gives J’ACCUSE its impact and preserve it unprejudiced as relevant to the audiences of today as it was benefit then. The performances of Roumalde Joube, Marise Dauvray and especially Severin-Mars (the drawl engineer of LA ROUE) linger long after the film is over. The film is far from perfect and definitely not for everyone. It’s too long and the storytelling becomes too episodic at times but the overall message enhanced by Gance’s inimitable restful film style fabricate it hard to forget. As usual the restoration and presentation by Flicker Alley rates 5 stars. Tremendous music from Robert Israel as well.

J’Accuse was the only “peace film” to be made in Europe during World War I. Gance, who had served briefly in that conflict, returned to active service in 1918 to film battle scenes of soldiers actually under fire. Parts of the film were shot during the battle of St. Mihiel, one of the most vital of the war. Also, for the illustrious “March of the Lifeless” sequence at film’s raze, Gance broken-down sincere soldiers home on leave from the front - most of whom were killed within the following weeks. Some titles are taken from genuine letters written by soldiers to their families. These scenes are surely the best and most spectacular of the whole movie.

The film stars Maryse Dauvray as Edith, a young Frenchwoman who is in savor with a poet (Romuald Joubé) but is forced by her father (Maxime Desjardins) into a marriage with a great older man (Séverin-Mars) . Edith is captured by the Germans and endures multiple rapes that result in her becoming pregnant. Edith’s husband initially thinks that the poet is the father of her child, and the account ends in tragedy with both men seeing action in the trenches.

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J’Accuse introduced techniques developed by Gance including rapid-cut editing and expressionistic camerawork and lighting. The film is a must-see for all quiet movie fans. Overall, a spectacular and seminal work, although with nearly 3 hours it is very long for new standards and for the time. It contains some unnecessary reiterations, especially with its title J’accuse”, where the meaning is not always sure. But, it is distinguished better and more watchable than most films coming out in Europe and America of the time.

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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King Movie Streaming

February 9th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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The extended DVD of “Return of the King” is filled with many unusual and extended scenes that will please fans who worship Tolkien’s current narrative. The July 26, 2004 San Diego Laughable Convention featured a preview of many scenes, some introduced by Peter Jackson himself. (Some of these scenes were recently featured in the sneak preview trailer at Lord of the Rings.accept, although now it seems to have been removed) . In reference to a couple of reviews on the board here — if you’re waiting anxiously for the Scouring of the Shire, don’t bear your breath. That segment was NEVER filmed by Jackson, therefore it will NOT be included in the extended edition DVD. But there ARE plenty of gigantic scenes to be included:

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· We hear Christopher Lee’s booming disclose echoed over a dismal veil that lightened to thunder Saruman on top of Orthanc. He warns our heroes of something festering in the heart of Middle-earth and that they will all die.

· We survey Frodo and Sam in their Orc disguises joining the column of Orcs as they march out of Mordor.

· There are numerous shots of the Houses of Healing with Faramir, Eowyn, and Merry all seen.

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· A lot more looks to be added to the siege of Minas Tirith, as there was a bunch of fresh battle footage.

· Frodo and Sam venture into the Crossroads and a few clips from that portion were included.

· The Mouth of Sauron is featured glorious heavily. If you’ve played EA’s Return of the King video game you’ll ogle the scene. The Mouth of Sauron rides out of the Unlit Gate and presents Frodo’s mithril coat to the Fellowship.

· Aragorn reveals himself to Sauron by approaching the Palantir in Minas Tirith and wields Anduril to expose that the Heir of Elendil was alive.

· We derive to peruse more of Saruman later in the preview when he knocks Wormtongue down and also fires a giant fireball from his staff that engulfs Gandalf on Shadowfax.

· There’s more of Frodo and Sam in Mordor after they join the column of Orcs and before they discard their disguises. In one scene, Sam looks to the unlit sky of Mordor and tells Frodo that he can notice light as one petite star can be seen glimmering through the clouds.

· And yes, we will finally derive to explore Gandalf facing down the Witch King. It happens exactly as we’ve seen, but when Gandalf holds up his staff the Witch King pulls out his sword and holds it to the sky where it spouts flames. As he brings it down, the air around the burning sword is distorted.

That was honest the preview. Fresh Line treated fans to three corpulent clips, with the third introduced by Peter Jackson himself:

· There was a nice scene of Pippin and Faramir in Gondor where Faramir explains to the Hobbit how the little Gondorian armor he was wearing belonged to a young son of the Steward when he was a kid. Faramir further explains how Boromir was always the soldier and he wasn’t.

· A scene that takes residence about five days after they were healed by Aragorn features Faramir and Eowyn on a balcony at the Houses of Healing where Eowyn falls for Faramir.

· The Paths of the Dumb is extended from where it ends in the theatrical slit. After Aragorn poses his offer, the tedious laugh and go serve into the walls. A massive earthquake starts, and the Three Hunters must run an avalanche of millions of skulls.

· Described, but not shown, another scene expanded in this edition is the scene where Pippin finds Merry on the battlefield. Now, Pippin searches the field for an entire day after everyone else has gone serve into the city. He finally locates Merry at night in the unusual version of the scene.

Impartial a few weeks to go till the “Return of the King” extended edition hits the stores!

Peter Jackson proved me foul when I said, like many people, that Lord of the Rings would be a bust: Spielberg-adventure at best, Lucas-disaster at worst. Had I known Tolkien’s classic was in the hands of the guy who directed Beautiful Creatures, I would have been more optimistic. As it turns out, my expectations were completely overturned. In some ways the films are actually better than the books, especially in terms of emotional power. Competent actors, wonderful cinematography, and a colorful music bag combine to offer us Middle-Earth as we’d never imagined it.

Fellowship of the Ring is the most polished film, with its glowing episodic pacing. We launch in the idyllic world of the hobbits and cruise with Ringwraiths hot on our heels; we rest in Elrond’s sanctuary and tumble into Moria; we approach out grieving and console ourselves in Galadriel’s noble (yet unsettling) dream-wood, and then wind up surrounded by Uruk-hai. This is a quintessential fantasy road-journey containing three episodes within an episode, each beginning in a haven and followed by a murky slide. The pacing is flawless, and the space unfolds to a perfect beat.

Two Towers is the ambiguous film. It’s splendid (or at least the extended version is) but structured in a plot that the hobbits become sidelined by the Rohan fable. As they are the soul of Tolkien’s yarn, we feel slightly nonplussed at their consignment to B-storylines. Ironically, the film is a showcase for cgi characters Gollum and Treebeard, who manage to occupy the point to from within these storylines.

Return of the King is the most dramatic film, tragic on almost a biblical level, and certainly the most satisfying. I can understand why Elijah Wood calls it “better than one and two combined”. It centers on the hopeless mission to Mount Doom, which, as every fan knows, is the heart of the chronicle. Around this we’re bombarded by apocalyptic chaos and destruction on the Pelennor Fields, followed by Aragorn’s hopeless march on the Dark Gate. We accomplish at the Grey Havens, the best ending in literary and cinematic history, which encapsulates all of Tolkien’s themes: courage, friendship, suffering, and passing on. It impartial doesn’t acquire better than this.

Peter Jackson deserves more accolades than I’m top-notch of heaping to the point of overkill. Minor quibbles aside, the extended versions of these films are masterpieces to be treasured as great as the books. Tolkien’s classic may be pure, but the movie’s cinematography takes us where even the written word cannot go. Tolkien’s writing is irreplaceable, but Howard Shore’s music taps deeper into Middle-Earth’s soul. The text is sacred, but the scriptwriters changed it anyway so that it could actually work on hide. The entire project has been too superior to be suitable, and I’m mild in scare of it.

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February 9th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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Just adding my two cents to the gargantuan reviews already here!

I saw this series when it was broadcast on Cartoon Network a few years ago, and I was twisted on it from the first episode! I’m not usually a fan of mammoth robots that duke it out in the streets, but the characters and the visual style of this anime really drew me in. I’m a immense fan of Art Deco (same reason I liked Batman: The Bright Series, which shares some of the same production staff), and this series is loaded with it, from the buildings, to the vehicles, to the film noir feeling that pervades the entire series.

Roger Smith is probably one of the smoothest cats in anime, yet even he gets blindsided every now and then by questions from his unflappable robot maid/ward/royal hurt in the keister, R. Dorothy Wayneright.

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Case in point: Roger and Dorothy are investigating the kidnapping of the son of a prominent Paradigm industrialist (in the episode, “Beck Comes Aid”) . Discussing the son’s parents, who met after losing their memories in the Event, Dorothy says she has two questions for Roger. The first one is, “Does losing your memory really gain you that lonely? ” Roger says it’s a tough request to respond, but makes a go of it, then asks Dorothy what the 2nd expect is. “Forget it,” she says. “If you belief the last one was tough, this one is worse.” Dorothy is damaged in the battle to retrieve the industrialist’s son, and Roger asks Norman, his gracious butler, to select care in repairing her so she can ask the demand…and what is the examine? “If you and I lost our memories, and we met, would we plunge in adore? ” That one renders Roger speechless…

There are many such moments, as well as ones that vow a petite too terminate to home, such as the dangers of genetic manipulation, nuclear holocaust, and horrible that disguises itself as benevolence.

Luckily there is a second location of 13 episodes to back respond some of the questions raised by the first season! The affirm acting is well done (you’ll hear familiar voices if you’re a fan of Cowboy Bebop) and the music is very frosty. Indulge In!

This exhibit will appeal to kids because of the pleasurable animation and robot battles, but it is of far more value to more former minds, who can savor the religious allusions, symbolism, deep characterization, subtle yet chronicle area line, and genuinely witty dialogue that this series displays. The stutter acting is top notch and very well implemented. Roger Smith’s wry nature plays incredibly well off the characters he is always around such as (though not itsy-bitsy to) : 1. Dorothy: a girlish female android who is genuinely pain by Roger’s scathing comments regarding her “unfeeling” robotic nature. There is a positive ammount of romantic tension between these two, and Roger’s uncertainty makes their relationship awkward. 2. Norman: a butler who pretends to agree with everything he says, with a genuinely sarcastic nature 3. Angel: a completely mysterious free lance agent, who is always crossing Roger’s path. 4. Schwarzwald: an insane, suicidal maniac, who knows many secrets. I like how he and Roger interract, because it is only around this bandaged, ranting mad-scientist that Roger acts dead-pan and chilly. Since they are rivals, its very enthralling and realistic for Roger to mask his upright emotions. It also makes a very stark inequity. The state is too complex to justify here, so I will simply say that it has the best themes I’ve ever seen in a cartoon.

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February 8th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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A tradition that every November we preview the coming ski season with the unique Warren Miller film. I’m worried this one disappoints. Some enormous footage, and a worldwide coverage, but there isn’t remarkable different from last year’s film, or the one before. Creeping commercial sigh and an over hyped commentary. Too serious - where’s the comical issue that his films old-fashioned to prove to rupture up the narrative actin shots?

I’ve been a tall fan of Warren Miller movies for years, but this one was really disappointing. Warren Miller’s color commentary is now gone, except for a few archived sound bites from the past. The music was boring and mellow, not energetic and hastily like in many previous Warren Miller films. Try Icy Fusion, Tear, or Storm instead - each of those are helpful. This one was a end of time.

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Watch Medicine Man Online

February 7th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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The critics really blew it on this one. (Leonard Maltin must have been having a really unpleasant day.) Some of the reviews are absolutely bewildering - as if they saw some other movie.

“Medicine Man” is the rare action/adventure film with something more than car chases and shootouts on its mind, a passionate parable of the rampant destruction of the rainforest and the miracles of nature now threatened by “progress”.

Sean Connery gives one of the best, most nuanced performances of his career, almost certainly the definitive “obsolete” Connery role, and Lorraine Bracco is a perfect foil as the sharp-tongued but endearing “Dr. Bronx” - their conflict thoroughly understandable and its resolution none too easy.

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The breathtaking beauty of the rainforest and the haunting images of the native tribes driven from their homes (or decimated by the white man’s diseases) are punctuated by thrilling aerial sequences high above in the jungle canopy - “the top shelf in the pharmacological superstore”.

Forget the critics. This is an almost perfectly realized film, one that impartial gets better with each viewing, one that stays with you long after it’s over.

For Connery fans, I also recommend one of his early (and nearly forgotten) films, “The Hill”.

Dr. Campbell (Sean Connery), a biochemist who has been doing extensive medical research for years in the lush rainforests of the Amazon, has found what unbiased might be a MAJOR medical breakthrough. But that’s not to say that he wouldn’t devour unprejudiced a puny bit of support. Dr. Crane (Lorraine Bracco), a fellow biochemist comes to the wait on of Dr. Campbell to back him as mighty as she can.

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Will Dr. Campbell and Dr. Crane be able to bag this miracle cure that could be fair over the horizon? Will they be able to space aside their differences and actually be able to score along one of these days? These are the major questions that watching “Medicine Man” will retort for all the viewers who witness this substantial movie.

“Medicine Man” is one of those movies that doesn’t need a bit of special effects to design it an unforgettable movie. It’s a film that is proper compelling and piquant to ogle from commence to carry out without ever getting humdrum. With Sean Connery as the lead character, you know there will be large acting included.

If you’re a fan of spacious movies, I definitely recommend to not miss out on your chance to observe and even gain “Medicine Man.”

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Stream The Life of Rayful Edmond - Rise and Fall Vol. 1 Online

February 7th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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Rayful Edmond III probably is the most famous drug dealer in Washington, D.C. history. In the early 90’s when he was arrested for running a criminal enterprise the trial riveted the state, or at least me. From news accounts he started drug dealing at an early age - in fact his entire family has a history of organized criminal activity dating assist to the fifties. I read a newspaper narrative that claimed he was bagging cocaine for his father at the tender age of 3.

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This docudrama uses news clips, interviews with Edmond associates and undercover cops, televised interviews with Edmund himself, and reenactments to grunt Edmond’s life tale. For the most piece it is okay but the choice of music is sometimes questionable and the arrest scene staged for this film was a bit droll and overblown.

This docudrama appears to be told from the point of opinion of Rayful Edmond. It tries to gain Edmond out really not to be that poor of a guy. His associates record him as a aloof, fun loving guy throwing money around to all his friends and neighbors. For example, he settled a violent gang war because it was hurting both his business and the rival gang’s. And all those witnesses schedule to appear at this trial that got murdered? That was somebody else not Edmond! Give me a fracture! This guy had connections to the Columbian drug lords and was crafty enough to broker drug deals from jail. I fetch it incredulous to claim he didn’t have anything to do with witnesses getting knocked off or that he wasn’t fragment of all the violence that gripped DC because of drugs in the unhurried `80s and early `90s (and quiet does today) .

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So I have to give this so called documentary a thumbs down. It seems too slanted toward making the best case possible that Rayful Edmond was objective a guy with a different line work. If it had told this memoir and the other side of the sage then I’d convey its praises, because who knows? Maybe there is more to Edmond than news accounts acquire him out to be. But this documentary certainly doesn’t fabricate a very convincing case for it.

THE LIFE OF RAYFUL EDMOND: RISE AND Tumble VOL.1 (2005)

directed by Kirk Fraser

approx. 75 minutes

This is probably the best of the new slew of documentaries on high profile drug dealers. Rayful Edmond was the biggest drug dealer in the history of Washington, D.C. His family had been alive to in illegal activities when he was a youngster and this laid the path for his hold “career path”. In the cocaine explosion of the mid 1980s he reportedly made $300,000,000 a year distributing poison to Americans including many within his acquire community.

We glance the “rise” of Edmond’s hasty accumulation of material goods and expansion of his “operation”. He bought several expensive cars and gambled thousands of dollars “as a joke”. It covers his closest friends who became instrumental in his arrest and ultimately testified against him in court and the ridiculous trial. The epilogue states that while incarcerated, Edmond became keen with the illustrious Medellin drug cartel (which was itself connected to CIA asset Barry Seal.) Perhaps it is not a shock that in order to befriend his mother earn out of prison he became a government informant.

I will say one thing which is that the legend has a lot less glamorized violence than other similar stories. In clips from the TV news demonstrate “DATELINE”, Edmond seems remorseful and says he wasn’t trying to come by anybody killed but that he didn’t have the foresight of that aspect of his “business”. He seems trusty that he wasn’t trying to accept anybody murdered but of course he was the “king” of selling a toxic substance to drug addicts. In the special features, the director and producer spot that they are trying to explain people the error of Edmond’s ways and that there are other options besides drug dealing. Whether you judge they succeed or not, it at least shows more self-awareness than other similar DVDs.

The movie is very well made in that it cuts between “dramatizations” and interviews with Raymond’s traditional associates and people at various levels of law enforcement who were on the Edmond case. The makers of this DVD went the extra mile to earn the news footage from the time and various interviews with Edmond. The music is mostly repetitive ambient music similar to the TV demonstrate ‘UNSOLVED MYSTERIES”. Occasionally there is sort of religious sounding music (for example in the arrest scene) which is intended to produce the turning points of the fable seem like major events in history. Edmond seems like a colorful man, I wonder what he could’ve accomplished if he had chosen a different path. I will check for Kirk Fraser’s movies in the future.

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Stream All This, and Heaven Too Online

February 7th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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“All This and Heaven Too”, released in 1940, is a long and gripping film concerning a noted cancel within the French aristocracy. Made at the height of Bette Davis’s career at Warner Brothers, it is most considerable today for the underacting of Davis, in difference to her many noteworthy more dynamic and spirited characterisations. This is one of the films which counters Davis’s mainly unfounded reputation for overacting. Matched with Charles Boyer, an equally magnetic and worthy actor, the pair invent a deeply felt relationship conveyed mainly in conclude up. Anatole Litvak directs meticulously and the film is a triumph of studio magic but the length tends to induce boredom today.

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The print of the film is first rate and there is a comprehensive package of extras. Two trailers are included, one for the film itself and the other for “Dr Erlich’s Magic Bullet”, carefully promoted as another example of Warner’s leadership in breaking recent ground for the film was about finding a cure for syphilis. The Newsreel shows Ed Sullivan crowning Davis and Mickey Rooney as king and queen of Hollywood in 1940 and the technicolour short is a patriotic recruiting poster for the Navy - beautifully made but hard not to cringe today. There are 2 trustworthy cartoons included, particularly Daffy Duck trying to shatter into pictures and with lots of in jokes about the Warner’s contract players.

A commentary is included too. For over 2 hours, Daniel Bubbeo chatters on (and on and on), repeating himself and promoting his book on the women of Warner Brothers. With such a long film, it would have been impossible for him not to have told us something about the film but the padding is endless and humdrum and his grunt song delivery is very irritating.

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The DVD is great value but better if purchased as section of the 3rd Davis Collection.

Wonderfully classic Betty Davis. Profitable movie. I am so satisfied to have it in my collection of classic movies. A must have Betty Davis film.

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February 6th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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Irwin Allen’s 1960 version of The Lost World may be shot in CinemaScope, but stylistically it fits just in with his 60s sci-fi TV shows (indeed, stock footage from the film found its plot into his Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea series, as did co-star David Hedison) . Originally intended to feature state-of-the-art stop-motion animation from Willis O. Brien, the special effects genius tedious the groundbreaking 1925 version as well as King Kong, the ever-economical producer opted instead for the tried and trusted and, most vital of all, great cheaper technique of supergluing fins and horns on valid lizards and having them double for dinosaurs despite looking like nothing so grand as lizards with fins and horns superglued on them. However, even had he spent the extra time and money, this modernised version was never going to be the definitive one: ‘dinosaur’ action is fairly thin on the ground and the novel’s finale that sees a pterodactyl on the loose in London is unceremoniously dropped. Instead there’s a lot of wandering around the Fox ranch and backlot, cameo appearances from the weird poisonous giant plant left over from Drag to the Center of the Earth, a tribe of natives with a yen for human sacrifice, a fortune in diamonds and the obligatory erupting volcano finale, though it retains a obvious nostalgic Saturday kids matinée appeal even if most of today’s kids wouldn’t sit tranquil for it. Claude Rains gets to grandstand as Professor Challenger while Michael Rennie’s aristocratic great game hunter seems almost like a diagram for George Lazenby’s buy on James Bond, with Jill St. John tagging along for no grand reason other than Arthur Conan Doyle’s thoughtless failure to provide any female roles in the novel fresh.

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Fox’s unusual Dwelling 1 NTSC DVD boasts a glorious 2.35:1 widescreen transfer, but the stereo tracks are reversed so that the left comes from the true speaker and vice versa. Along with novel trailer, brief featurette, Movietone newsreel footage of a kids charity screening and a unexcited gallery that’s irritatingly locked so you can’t fast-forward or reverse but have to play at normal bustle for nine minutes (!), it also comes with the modern 1925 tranquil version (which was, coincidentally, the first ever in-flight movie) . Unfortunately it’s not the relatively recently restored 93-minute version that’s available separately but the 75-minute version preserved by George Eastman House. For many years the longest version available after multiple cuts for reissues as the film’s ownership changed hands several times over the decades, for the more casual viewer it’s level-headed a welcome addition and offers a decent tinted print.

Willis O. Brien’s special effects are composed surprisingly agreeable and contrivance ahead of the 1960 version even if he was to perfect them further in King Kong (for which this film feels almost like a dress rehearsal at times), giving the film an narrative scale in the volcanic eruption and stampede sequences, while Wallace Beery is a perfect choice for Professor Challenger, embodying the gruff, belligerent nature of the character to a tee. There are changes to the new - not only is Bessie Savor brought along on the expedition to search for her lost father (with none of the comical relief chauvinism from Challenger found in the 1960 version) but the pterodactyl that terrifies the streets of London has been changed to a lumbering Brontosaurus, which is certainly a change for the better - but then Doyle’s book is rather light on residence to initiate with. The dinosaurs aren’t as well integrated into the memoir as you might hope - usually it’s cutaways to herds of dinosaurs in their natural habitat - and the racial stereotyping from Jules Cowles’ blackface routine as `Zambo’ is painfully embarrassing and horribly unfunny (sample dialogue on seeing campfire smoke from the plateau: “That means our folks is mild alive.” “It MAY mean dat some of those cannibules dat topple dat rock down on us yistiddy am cookin’ `em in dar stew-pot!”) . But it’s hard not to like a film with dialogue like “What are you thinking of, Paula - in this lost world of ours? ” or Challenger’s immortal “My brontosaurus has escaped! Retain off the streets - until I recapture it!” and where our hero’s rival for his girl befriend home’s affections is called Percy Bumberry!

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Although not advertised on the packaging, it also includes a surviving one-minute piece of the novel trailer and seven-and-a-half minutes of stop-motion outtakes, one including an unplanned one-frame cameo by Willis O. Brien himself!

Although Lost World includes one of my common long, lost actors, Michael Rennie, it’s no comparison to it’s contemporary, Accelerate to the Center of the Earth. In fact, it’s wonderful they were released in the same year. Trot is so noteworthy more a classic, yet it seems more dated. Lost World is unsuitable, but it has a more new touch since Irwin Allen would dominate the special effects field for the next fifteen years. George Pal, on the other hand, though he had a few agreeable productions in the Sixties, seems more at home in the Fifties. Lost World does have its moments, even working with a lower budget, but at least they wisely spent some of their dough on getting a helpful cast. Claude Rains is a savory curmudgeon, and as famous, Michael Rennie is a guy I’d seize on any expedition. The lizards as dinosaurs always had a split carry out on me: They Study astronomical and loyal, but they don’t notice like dinosaurs. However, the fight between the monitor lizard and the caiman (or whatever) made an animated match-up! Fair don’t train PETA. But overall, I would say the best special execute was Jill St. John’s bra.

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February 6th, 2010 by ainsley5640905
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The Mack (1973), probably one of the most referenced movies in the hip hop culture, on appearance has all the qualities of a blaxploitation film, but a closer and thoughtful notice might give you a different conception. Directed by documentarian Michael Campus and starring Max Julien, Richard Pryor, and Carol Urge, The Mack presents a portrait taken in time of a particular lifestyle not many ever find to gaze.

The movie opens with two men, Goldie (Julien) and Slim (Pryor), fervent in a gunfight in a junkyard. Seemingly out numbered, Goldie tells Slim to acquire off (wouldn’t have been my choice as Slim is sporting what appears to be a M16 while Goldie’s sporting a handgun) . Slim manages to split, while Goldie gets picked up by the police, and subsequently sentenced to five years in a penitentiary. Serving some particular hard time, Goldie gets released, and tries to build the pieces succor together. He visits his brother, Olinga, played by Roger E. Mosley (Magnum P.I.), who is interested in trying to educate and empower the community, in a character fashion after Dark Panther leader Huey Long. Basically. Goldie is presented with two options; follow his brother in focusing on making a contrast through psuedo-political means, or follow the path of the Mack, becoming a flesh peddler, and gaining empowerment through the acquisition of money. Goldie chooses the latter, hooking encourage up with Slim and taking advice from an older blind man, sort of a Obi Wan Kenobi of the underworld, who shares his knowledge with Goldie on how to deal with women in the Mackin’ game, the importance of controlling their minds rather than objective their bodies. Goldie soon recruits some ladies of the night, and has to deal with nasty police detectives, rival players, and various other underworld characters during his meteoric rise (he gets chosen as The Mack of the Year at an annual players ball) . As Goldie’s popularity, or notoriety, increases, so does the pressures, both internal and external, along with the violence, and begins carrying over into his family, and forces Goldie to resolve where it’s at…

The Mack certainly does seem to glorify these men who deal in the flesh trade, with their extravagant lifestyles, flashy cars, and expansive wads of cash, but the glamour is mercurial overshadowed by the harsh realities presented as the stories progresses, and objective how grand one has to give up to be a success in that particular business. There are a lot of laughs to be had here, maybe not intentional, but the film is radiant dated. Between the dialog, stereotypes, and trash-talking criminals, there was an underlying sadness for me in the realness of the disgusting attitudes depicted towards the women, objectified to the point where they weren’t even people anymore, merely tools of the trade, a means to obtaining material possessions through the sale of their bodies, and also how many gawk up to these men, idolizing them, thus perpetuating their activities. Shot on place in Oakland, and featuring accurate individuals within the community, the film forgoes the slickness of a Hollywood budget, but gains a proper grittiness one wouldn’t be able to reproduce on a soundstage. The dialog, a lot of it improvised, and some indistinguishable, only adds to the realistic quality of the film, but also isolates it, in my plan, within the time period in which it was made. The funniest section had to be when Goldie had his women at a planetarium, using the effects of the simulated stars and a microphone to subliminally enforce his will through their repetition of his player mantras. I did like how the film ended, nicely book ending the beginning, bringing the main character corpulent circle.

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Presented here is a very expedient looking wide mask version of the film, which runs approximately 110 minutes. Special features include an recent theatrical trailer, a commentary track featuring star Max Julien, producer Harvey Bernard, director Michael Campus, and actors Richard Anthony Williams, Annazette Saunter, Don Gordon, and George Murdok, along with an beneficial 38 puny featurette titled Mackin’ Ain’t Easy, which looks befriend on the making of the film, detailing all the problems and issues that arose, especially those filming on dwelling within Oakland in the early 70’s. To some extent, I found this almost more exquisite than the movie.

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The Mack is probably my popular blaxploitation film ever. It gives detailed insight into life as the godfather of pimps on the hard streets of Oakland in the 70’s. Goldie gets released from prison and immediately begins working his master belief of becoming the biggest pimp-style baller in the oaktown. But his brother is one of the leading activist against exploiting sad people to design money. The sub-plot helps magnify the reality of being a successful unlit man in a white world. If you like “Superfly”, “Shaded Caesar”, or “Shaft” then you’ll worship The Mack.

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