Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)

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Sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act. Suffering from a broken heart and a lust for revenge, Hedwig follows Tommy's tour, playing with her band (the Angry Inch) at tacky theme restaurants. Into this simple storyline, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell packs an astonishing mix of sadness, yearning, humor, and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer

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I Love Hedwig.......2007-06-27

Having seen this film in the theatre twice, I don't know what took me so long to buy the DVD - I enjoy it every time I watch it! It has great heart and empathy and the music is fantastic! John Cameron Mitchell is enchanting as well as the whole cast. It is absurd, outrageous and yes, lovingly done. I especially liked Michael Pitt - he is one of my favorite actors - puts his whole being into every character he portrays.

Compelling Music that moves you!.......2007-05-07

a great movie , if you enjoy a good musical DEFINATELY take a second look at this film!

weirdWildness.......2007-04-11

My daughters bought this film and both enjoyed it for its weirdwildness. I can't say that I did, but it's a generational thing I guess. They especially liked the music, but again I can't say that I did although I'm a musician myself. Clearly inventive movie making and excellent musicians doing exactly what they want to do, but... I guess it's a generational thing. I don't particularly like Andy Warhol's flicks, or Broadway musicals, or Wagnerian opera, or John Coltrane, Philip Glass, or Modest Mouse indy music either. What's an old classical guitarist to do when the Bach D-minor partita is pulled off the music stand and the cross-dressers appear? The topics are not quite my style, although emotionality is the same across the entire human race. Inventive, wild, weird, very well done, but not my style.
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An Inch Just Ain't Enough.......2007-03-30

Hedwig Robinson (John Cameron Mitchell) is a rocker. And she's got The Angry Inch beside her (and in her pants). As a young man, Hansel/Hedwig lived in East Berlin, right before The Wall came tumbling down. His sexual identity was always in question and when a cute, black, American soldier gives him a way out of the Eastern Bloc, Hedwig jumps on him (literally and figuratively). But he can't get to the other side of The Wall as a man, so an operation takes place to remove his vital functions below the waist ...if you get my meaning. Needless to say (if you pay attention to the title of the film), the surgery gets botched and leaves Hedwig with his "Angry Inch."

The anger is twofold. First is the failed operation; second is Hedwig's fury over stolen musical material by someone named Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt). Tommy is a rock-n-roll sensation, but it's all because of what Hedwig taught him in his early days. So Hedwig, in true b!tchy fashion, follows Tommy's rock tour around the world. But instead of playing in theaters and high end places, Hedwig and his Angry Inch band play at lowbrow restaurants, often to the dismay of its patrons who've simply come in to eat.

Hedwig's decline into obscurity is well played by director/actor John Cameron Mitchell. The musical soundtrack is very well done and the catchy tunes will have most movie watchers tapping their toes along to the rockin' beats. That he also remains angry at some of his band members is quite funny, actually holding them hostage by keeping their passports hidden away.

Revenge is the meal of the day as Hedwig finally meets up with Tommy again, eventually leading to Tommy's career demise and launching Hedwig into the spotlight. But is this what Hedwig really wanted? Not realizing the sacrifices she'd have to make, Hedwig decides to re-open her/his closet and show the world his/her true identity. He also sets free one of his band members who turns out to be a woman masquerading as a man, too.

Those willing to watch a film without sitting in judgement of the material will most likely eat this story up. It's quite funny, well acted, and has a rippingly good soundtrack. But if you're a staunch conservative or -- god forbid -- homophobic, you might want to pass on this one.

Mind-Altering Viewpoint.......2007-03-24

First time I watched this movie I was kinda confused, but felt like I'd just been run over by a truck. Still, I came back a second time, and a third, and a fourth...
And each time it amazes me. The meaning behind this movie and the idea of what makes someone happy might not end up completing them in the long run. *sigh* How many people can this touch before it becomes a cult classic?
Oh wait, It already is! :)

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The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
Nightmare Delivers
freddys back and in all 7 films to
WARNING: Will cause nightmares!!
Never Scary, But Always Entertaining

The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
Starring: Robert Englund
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ASIN: 0780626966
Release Date: 1999-09-21

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In the trinity of modern horror films, there's the father (Michael Myers of Halloween), the son (Jason of Friday the 13th fame, a knockoff), and the unholy spirit, Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. The spectral man who haunted the nightmares of unsuspecting teenagers with deadly consequences, Freddy (as played by Robert Englund) was a truly frightening bogeyman and icon for the '80s. Unlike the hockey-masked Jason, who dispatched horny teenagers with mechanical and monotonous ease (he never talked, never took off his mask), Freddy was a truly creative and diabolical villain, with a sadistic and blackly funny personality. The hallmarks of the Nightmare on Elm Street series were imaginatively gruesome suspense pieces, set in the overactive imaginations of the teen victims. The first film of the series, Wes Craven's truly intelligent and scary film, was so hugely successful it begat not one, not two, but six more sequels, each pretty much diluting the originality and horror of its predecesor. (Horror fans will fondly remember Drew Barrymore's assertion in Scream that the first Nightmare film was great but all the rest sucked.) Still, there's fun to be had in the remaining films in the series, seeing as a number of aspiring filmmakers cut their teeth on the continuing saga of Freddy. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and Chuck Russell (The Mask) worked on the third installment, Dream Warriors (starring a young Patricia Arquette), and Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) came to prominence with the ingeniously macabre fourth film, The Dream Master, coscripted by Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential). Craven and original star Heather Langenkamp did return for the last film, New Nightmare, which presaged the tongue-in-cheek postmodernism of the Scream films and resharpened Freddy's ability to scare. --Mark Englehart

Description

For two generations Freddy Krueger has scared the dickens out of movie goers. Now the most-dreamed-about name in horror history can be seen from beginning to end in this must-have collection.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
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Music Video
Theatrical Trailer

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The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection.......2007-09-05

This is a classical moview on 80's, I bought this DVD set which recall my young memories.

Nightmare Delivers.......2007-09-05

I have been waiting to get this collection for ages as its not yet available in Australia. I must say i wasnt dissapointed. The additional "Nightmare Series Encyclopedia" is a must see for fans of the series. Who knew Robert Englund was not only a great actor but a genius. His insight into his character and the series of "Nightmare's" was a rare treat. I have to say all of the actors and directors interviewed on this excellent behind the scenes look were great to watch and all had something interesting to say. It seems not only were the cast there for the love of the franchise but the crew and especially the studio "New Line". The only studio in Hollywood that believed in Wes Craven's classic idea. The movies are all there from 1 through to 7. The transfers are great although the sound on some of the earlier disc's isnt up to scratch. Its forgiven, it was the 80's and the early movies were made on a shoe string budget. If you love "Nightmare on Elm St" this is a must have and the 3-D glasses are a blast for both young and old.

freddys back and in all 7 films to .......2007-09-01

wow if u are a fan of theses films this is a must by theses dvds are amazing the bouns dvd is great to alot of extras in the maze so so i say get out of dream world and watch all the movies get this or els

WARNING: Will cause nightmares!!.......2007-08-01

My husband recieved this collection as a gift, and we both really enjoy it. My fave movies in the series is the original, Part 3, and The New Nightmare. They all have their good and bad points, but that's part of what makes them true horror classics.

Never Scary, But Always Entertaining.......2007-07-24

My best friend was horrified by this movie and every time I'd have sleep overs, I'd make sure to play this one just to watch her squirm. I pretty much took the movie as comedy and never dreamed about Freddy. However, those little girls playing jump rope and singing that awful song "1, 2, Freddie's coming for you" made my skin crawl. The later movies got a little ridiculous and weren't scary, but I could always count on these movies for their entertainment value. Freddie would visit children in their dreams and do some of the most horrific things to them while they couldn't wake up. I would sit at the edge of the bed and shake my head every time one of them dozed off. The writer of this found the most creative way to tell a horror story that no one could say "Well, that wouldn't happen to me." EVERYBODY has to go to sleep sooner or later so even those who didn't find this movie scary could still relate to a nightmare, and this guy was not someone you wanted to see as you doze off.

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What Were The Frogs About?
May Just Save Your Sanity
Don't bother...
AWARD FOR THE MOST TIMES THE "F" WORD IS USED!
It'll stay with you...

Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Michael Bowen , Melinda Dillon , Henry Gibson , Philip Baker Hall , and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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ASIN: B00003CWTI
Release Date: 2000-08-29

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A handful of people in the San Fernando Valley are having one hell of a day. TV mogul Earl Partridge (Jason Robards) is on his deathbed; his trophy wife (Julianne Moore) is popping pills with alarming frequency. Earl's nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying desperately to get in touch with Earl's only son, sex guru Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who's about to have his carefully constructed past blown by a TV reporter (April Grace). Whiz kid Stanley (Jeremy Blackman) is being goaded by his selfish dad into breaking the record for the game show What Do Kids Know? Meanwhile, Stanley's predecessor, the grown-up quiz kid Donnie Smith (William H. Macy) has lost his job and is nursing a severe case of unrequited love. And the host of What Do Kids Know?, the affable Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), like Earl, is dying of cancer, and his attempt to reconcile with his cokehead daughter (Melora Walters) fails miserably. She, meanwhile, is running hot and cold with a cop (John C. Reilly) who would love to date her, if she can sit still for long enough. And over it all, a foreboding sky threatens to pour something more than just rain.

This third feature from Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) is a maddening, magnificent piece of filmmaking, and it's an ensemble film to rank with the best of Robert Altman--every little piece of the film means something, and it's solidly there for a reason. Deftly juggling a breathtaking ensemble of actors, Anderson crafts a tale of neglectful parents, resentful children, and love-starved souls that's amazing in scope, both thematically and emotionally. Part of the charge of Magnolia is seeing exactly how may characters Anderson can juggle, and can he keep all those balls in air (indeed he can, even if it means throwing frogs into the mix). And it's been far too long since we've seen a filmmaker whose love of making movies is so purely joyful, and this electric energy is reflected in the actors, from Cruise's revelatory performance to Reilly's quietly powerful turn as the moral center of the story. While at three hours it's definitely not suited to everyone's taste, Magnolia is a compelling, heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful mediation on the accidents of chance that make up our lives. Featuring eight wonderful songs by Aimee Mann, including "Save Me." --Mark Englehart

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An intriguing and entertaining study in characters going through varying levels of crisis and introspection. This psychological drama leads you in several different directions, weaving and intersecting various subplots and characters, from a brilliant Tom Cruise, as a self-proclaimed pied-piper, to a child forced to go on a TV game show and the pressures he faces from a ruthless father.

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What Were The Frogs About?.......2007-09-12

I've only watched this movie in pieces. Anyone who could sit through the whole thing in one sitting, well, my hat is off to you.

The director obviously got sucked up into believing all the artsy-fartsy accolades heaped upon him by snobby critics who, of course, are far more intelligent than the movie-going public!

Julianne Moore is the female version of Jude Law: In every other movie that does NOT make any profit. Now that she's aged,we all hope she'll disappear!She's exactly the same over-acting hack in every movie.

This movie seems like it was made from leftover characters the director had on the back burner all looking for a movie to be in. Trouble is, he tried to tie them all together with a cohesive plot, of which there is none.

What were the frogs? I got to thinking maybe there was a catagory 10 hurricane somewhere and they got sucked up and dropped. Great affects, fast forward to the frogs, they were far more interesting than anything else in this piece of tripe. I'd rather see the movie about the frogs sucked up by the hurricane.

Boogie Nights written and directed by Anderson was very entertaining, a bit of a downer, but a great lesson for idiots planning a career in porn.

May Just Save Your Sanity.......2007-08-24

The reason to watch this movie isn't because it's a remarkable piece of high art (even though it is). The reason to watch this movie is to be uplifted. Years ago, I had seen the movie in the theater. Then I happened upon it again on cable. After experiencing a terrible car accident and some sobering realities of middle age, I saw this movie with new eyes. Magnolia profoundedly reminded me that the achingly painful existence that most of us live on this earth might actually be worthwhile. The characters and their lives are presented unflinchingly, but not without wit and humor. Magnolia is an opera, an epic, a confession, a prayer. Paul Thomas Anderson is an excellent filmmaker and a first-rate dramatist, and his cinematic storytelling most definitely helped uplift me at a troubled time. There might be another purpose for art, but I can't imagine a better one.

* You're on your honor * 'Cause I'm a goner * And you haven't even begun * So do me a favor * If I should waver * Be my savior...

Don't bother..........2007-08-15

Youre going to either love this movie or hate it. I'm usually on the "love it" side but this one was a total disaster. The plot, the LENGTH (goes on forever), theres no excitement, and the actors overact in every scene.

AWARD FOR THE MOST TIMES THE "F" WORD IS USED!.......2007-08-10

THE "F" WORD COMPRISED MOST OF THE DIALOGUE.
I'VE NEVER HEARD IT SO UNENDINGLY REPEATED.
I GOT THE FEELING THAT THIS "PLOY" WAS CONSIDERED AVANT GARDE OR COOL AT THE TIME THE MOVIE WAS MADE. IT WAS VERY IRRITATING.
I WAS VERY DISSAPOINTED IN ROBARD'S PERFORMANCE.
HIS DIATRIBE TOWARDS THE END WAS OBNOXIOUS AND AGAIN, USING THE F WORD AS EVERY OTHER WORD, WAS RIDICULOUS.
I DON'T LIKE TOM CRUISE, BUT I MUST SAY THAT HIS PERFORMANCE IN THIS, IS PROBABLY THE MOST INTERESTING AND WELL DONE THAN THE REST OF THE CHARACTERS.
I ALSO LIKED JOHN C. REILLY'S PERFORMANCE AND FELT THE MOST SYMPATHY FOR HIM.
THIS FILM WAS ALSO WAY TOO LONG.

It'll stay with you..........2007-08-01

I really like this movie, but it's not one that I can watch over and over again, like I can most other movies. There are many plots, subplots, twists and turns, but the story line with Tom Cruise and Juliane Moore was the best. It reduced me to sobs more than once. Everyone should see this movie, but don't be surprised if it's not one you'll be in a hurry to see again.

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This is Poverty - White Trash Style
Anyone with a soul should find this movie horrible
It claws your senses, twists your logic, and murders your soul; and yet I can't look away.
time better spent elswhere
I like cats.

Gummo
Starring: Wendall Carr , Charles Matthew Coatney , Bryant L. Crenshaw , Darby Dougherty , and James Glass (II)
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ASIN: B000059HA8
Release Date: 2001-03-20

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From Harmony Korine, screenwriter of Kids, comes a haunting portrait of life in small-town America. Through a collection of dreamlike and devastating images, Korine offers a glimpse of Xenia, Ohio, a world existing in the aftermath of a tornado.

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This is Poverty - White Trash Style.......2007-09-13

For those folks that thought this movie was "dirty" and "gross", well, this is how it is in white trash poverty. If you can't stomach it, please, show it to your kids. I would highly suspect that if every kid in America watched THIS movie instead of "Free to Be You and Me" (or whatever whacko liberal feel good/do what you want in life/don't worry about what anyone else thinks movies they show today), there would be no drop-outs, class skipping or failed grades.

Anyone with a soul should find this movie horrible.......2007-08-01

this movie was a horribile, disgusting collection of scenes featuring white trash doing white trash things: Pimping out your mentally retarded sister; Huffing glue; Killing stray cats and selling them to the chinese resturant; Deformed retarded gay midgets coming on to one other; and then random things like a kid running around with bunny ears on.....? everything in this movie is DIRTY (as in unsanitary..not explicit), POOR, and improperly worded.

however if you enjoy being disgusted and appalled as i sometimes do then watch this movie, DONT BUY IT ...you wont want to watch it more than once. i'd rather watch this movie than something i've already seen 10 times.......but i'll never watch it again

i took a shower when it was over, it made me sick.

It claws your senses, twists your logic, and murders your soul; and yet I can't look away. .......2007-05-23

Another reviewer said Gummo was "unlike anything else of TV." My Holy Goodness, how right they were. If a lunatic was voted mayor of a town, Gummo would be the film depicting the townsfolk who call such a place "home-sweet-home."

We are introduced to the following: two awkward, gangly teens who kill cats and sell the rotting corpses to a local grocery store for a dollar per pound; three sisters who are about as backwards as anything this side of Appalachian poverty; a seedy brother who pimps his retarded sister out to teenaged boys; a sinister-looking young lady who, obviously being on the slow side, enjoys walking around the town singing "Jesus loves me this I know" as well as the always depraved "A-B-C-D-EFG-" song. Along the way, we also meet a young man wearing nothing but some swim trunks and a pink bunny hat who has the habit of urinating on cars driving beneath a local underpass. Oh, and for fits and giggles, we meet a group of rowdy mullet-styled rednecks who get their kicks from wrestling kitchen chairs to the point of exhaustion.

Sound like fun? This is a messed-up movie about twisted people living in the aftermath of a tornado that has swepth through their little slice of heaven. Nothing runs together smoothly as scenes and storylines come and go without rhyme or reason. Even the David Lynch and Terrence Malick crowds out there will feel disoriented in about 90% of this film.

A word of caution: if you begin to watch Gummo, you will have trouble turning away. I would liken it to a drug addiction that you know will harm you in some if you keep using it, but you end up alleviating such a warning by telling yourself, "Hey, just a little more. Just a little bit mo...."

time better spent elswhere.......2007-05-19

Here are some alternative suggestions to watching this movie:
1) spend the hour and a half in a forest preserve out house...
2) try making your own crystal meth and then doing it
3) eat some spoiled chicken, get sick, puke and then role around in it.
4) piss in your pants and don't change your clothes
Doing one or all of the above is a far better experience than sitting through this piece of vile trash.

I like cats........2007-05-19

I hated this trash. I'm so glad I saw it on IFC and didn't pay for rental. I can't ask for my money back. I do want that hour and a half back though. That so called writer/director(?) should go away.

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DENZEL WASHINGTON TAKES MY BREATH AWAY!!
Thought Provoking
A "what would you do" situation
My son is more important than me
Justice for John Q!!!

John Q. (Infinifilm Edition)
Starring: Obba Babatunde , Troy Beyer , Kevin Connolly , Eddie Griffin , and Anne Heche
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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ASIN: B00005JKWX
Release Date: 2002-07-16

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It's impossible to walk away from John Q. without thinking about the film that could have been. The pathetic state of health care in the U.S. and the desperate behavior it engenders is not only worthy but edgy material; no doubt director Nick Cassavetes (She's So Lovely) and Denzel Washington (as well as Robert Duvall, Ray Liotta, James Woods, and Anne Heche) were drawn to the provocative pitch. The only snag is that John Q. has about as much edge as an after-school special. Washington plays John Quincy Archibald, a hard-working factory worker whose house stands to be repossessed and whose lovely wife (Kimberly Elise) is at her wits' end. When his extremely cute son collapses while rounding the bases in a Little League game, things go from bad to worse. John Q. takes a downtown Chicago emergency room hostage when he learns that the heart transplant his son needs won't be performed because his health care doesn't cover it. The action-drama that ensues--replete with one-liners, stilted debate, inept snipers, and multiple references to O.J. Simpson's white Bronco--is so littered with clichés that the issues, timely ones, get lost in a crescendo of melodrama. --Fionn Meade

Description

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars in this powerful drama about a father who takes extreme measures to save his son's life when his insurance company refuses to cover his heart transplant surgery.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
DVD ROM exclusive web site
Deleted Scenes
Documentaries
Theatrical Trailer

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DENZEL WASHINGTON TAKES MY BREATH AWAY!!.......2007-09-08

this man is by far one of the best actors ever. anytime you see a movie and it has denzel washington in it, you know it's going to be good. that's just how he does it. anytime he's on screen he just commands all attention, and everybody's like damn, there's denzel, ready to put it on them. he commands your attention. great actor, love this guy, impossible to do it better. there's just something about him that never lets you down. in john q, he just seems to do it again. he brings it to the table. this movie is fantastic. he gives you that emotion, that fire, and you can't help but be amazed. in this movie he portrays a father who was given no other choice. he had to do what he had to for his son. it just goes to show, you do things the right way no one will listen. so you got to do something drastic to get their attention. you don't even want to get me started on health care. it's hard when you aren't making mega money, or your job doesn't have any insurance. i went with him all the way in this one. what do you do when a life's hanging in the balance. no doubt, do what you have to. even if it means sacrificing yourself. this is enough to keep your pulse pounding. bravo, to you denzel. as for his costar kimberly, can't leave her out. she brought that emotion as well. she's a very good actress, and i definitely applaude her for that. overall this movie was great, and a very good point. if ever in a crisis like that, you do what you got to do. low key denzel does it again. this man is gold.

Thought Provoking.......2007-09-07

Really surpised this movie has yet to play out in the real world, or maybe it has and I've not heard about it. Faced with a similar situation of your kid needing treatment and the hospital and insurance company denying it, I'd give SERIOUS consideration to doing what John Q did. Very entertaining movie. It will make you mad, it will make you cheer, it will make you sad. Very good cast.

A "what would you do" situation.......2007-08-25

OMG! Because I work in the health profession, this is my favorite movie cause I see it all. It makes you think; exactly what would you do in a situation when all of a sudden all you have is nothing but your family?

My son is more important than me.......2007-08-14

This film is the pioneer and precursor of Michael More's documentary Sicko recently released, but this one is based on a fictional situation. What is a father ready to do to enable his son to get a heart transplant? And what is the system able to do to prevent him from getting it because he does not have enough insurance coverage? The second question is easy to answer: nothing and the system will let the child die. No insurance coverage, no treatment. The first question is a lot more difficult to answer; the film goes very far in the fiction and yet it is absolutely believable. Yes a father is able to kidnap innocent people and medical personnel to impose a positive solution. Then the rest is pure luck, haphazard chance, good effective media, a lot of human feeling, a mistake done by the shoot-first-ask-questions-second chief of police in his four star uniform, and of course a lot of sympathy from the public which is perfectly understandable when you know 46 millions Americans have no health coverage at all and probably twenty more millions have a partial coverage, i.e. not full coverage or full coverage not all the time. The film is of course very effective emotionally, and it uses some short sequences from the news programs of the 1990s when Hillary Clinton was trying in the name of her husband to convince Congress to pass legislation on the subject and failed. I think even to kill yourself to provide your own son with a heart is an option that could be considered by some fathers. Of course the film did not emphasize the real negative sides of the problem, the greediness of some doctors, the total indifference of most administrative personnel, the brutality of the police in such cases who would consider a forceful solution before a peaceful one. But there must be some dream even when dealing with such a subject.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Justice for John Q!!!.......2007-04-21

Where do I start. Oh where do I begin! This is probably one of my favorite film. Denzel won an Oscar for Training Day, now I do like that movie, but this movie Denzel should have won it! He is amazingly passionate and heart felt to see a father care for his child. I love this movie. I love the drama, i love the script, and I love the acting. I do think that the whole movie is a great movie to watch fequently. I bought it and I feel so close to this movie. It grabs your heart, and make you have an awakening moment for the lives of this family. Love it Love it, oh did I mention that I Love it? :) Watch it . . . either rental or purchase!

Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)

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Like watching Airplane without all the puns
The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!
Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!
Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?
"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!"

Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson , Julianna Margulies , Nathan Phillips (II) , Rachel Blanchard , and Flex Alexander
Director: David R. Ellis
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ASIN: B000JBXHQY
Release Date: 2007-01-02

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Snakes on a Plane knows exactly what kind of movie it is, knows exactly what moviegoers expect from a title like Snakes on a Plane, and delivers the exact pleasures of a movie in which poisonous snakes are unleashed on a plane to kill an eyewitness to murder. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Long Kiss Goodnight) knows exactly what he's doing in this movie and knows exactly when to pull out the superbad Samuel L. Jackson stare and deliver the infuriated Samuel L. Jackson bellow. The rest of the cast--including Julianna Margulies (ER), Rachel Blanchard (the TV series Clueless), Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert), David Koechner (Anchorman), Bobby Canavale (The Station Agent), and Sunny Mabrey (One Last Thing...)--play their parts with admirably straight faces and deadpan humor. Director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) gives the movie the much-needed headlong momentum you would expect from a former stunt coordinator. In summation: A perfect piece of self-aware but not self-conscious high camp entertainment, blending comedy and thrills in perfect proportion. --Bret Fetzer

Description

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:featuring Director David Ellis, Samuel L. Jackson and more
Deleted Scenes:10 Deleted Scenes
Easter Eggs
Featurette:"Snakes on a Video" Cobra Starship, includes music video (8:55) "Pure Venom: Making of Snakes on a Plane" featurette (18:02) "Snakes on a Blog" featurette (12:18) "Meet the Reptiles" featurette (12:56) "VFX" featurette (5:00)
Gag Reel
Music Video
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Like watching Airplane without all the puns.......2007-09-10

There's a scene in snake's on a plane where a flight attendant sticks one of the snakes in a microwave and hits a buttons saying "snake" on it. That should be a hint not take this movie seriously. Word is they went back and did reshoots to make this film more camp than it already was - and it shows. However, the goal to make this like campy horror shifted into the territory of all out comedy.

Watching it reminded me of watching the great comedy Airplane. The stereotypical cast of characters showing up on an airplane: the star, the kids by themselves, the snob, and the lady with the crying baby. The cardboard performances and completely inconceivable plot had me hoping Samuel L. Jackson might quip "Don't Call Me Shirley."

But having a conceivable isn't what this movie is all about. When the snakes really start overtaking the plane, we get the goofy shock horror we were promised. It's a splatter fest to be sure - but the way we see some people die from snake attacks is hilarious. It's predictable, but it's fun. The ending is silly and the fun is over long before the credits start rolling. But take it for what it is - goofy fun - some of it intentional, some of it not so much. In the end, it's good for a laugh.

The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!.......2007-09-03

Seriously, just say the title to yourself. Slowly--one word at a time. Go ahead, no one's watching. Snakes...on...a...plane. Can you do that without laughing? I know I can't.

What started out as an EXPLOSIVE internet phenomenon in spring 2006 became a legend by August. And unless you've been living under a rock for the last year and a half, you'll definitely know something about Snakes On A Plane. When the story surfaced, I thought it was such a genius idea for a brainless summer popcorn movie, became a regular on the IMDb board for a bit, got an official T-Shirt at Hot Topic, and, unfortunately, didn't get a chance to see it when it opened on August 18th. Well, last night I sat down with a friend at 1:30 in the morning with a can of Rockstar, popcorn, and french fries and put the movie on, truly, completely not knowing of what was about to be thrown in my face.

As you can probably imagine, Snakes on a Plane is about...well...snakes on a plane. A teenager witnesses a brutal murder in Honolulu, doesn't do anything, and Samuel L. Jackson as a super-cool FBI agent must escort him to LA to testify. But the murderer wants this witness dead--so he releases deadly snakes on the plane to make sure he dies.

The film is basically made up of people getting killed in the most random and outrageous ways imaginable by this ASTOUNDINGLY unrealistic movie, and Samuel L. Jackson killing the snakes and trying to protect the passengers. Hilarity ensues--I laughed throughout the whole movie. The dialogue is absolutely ridiculous, badly written, super-corny, yet excruciatingly funny. Kenan Thompson portrays a video-game addict passenger who attempts to fly the plane and the whole thing is just really, really funny.

Aside from that, being honest--S.O.A.P is without a doubt the WORST movie I have ever seen. Ever. It has no story, it's extremely corny (even the scenes without the snakes), makes you want to kill yourself, it's terribly acted, and everything else bad you can think of. Yet, there's a little voice inside you protesting, insisting you watch the rest of Samuel L. Jackson beating the crap out of poisonous snakes. While it is the worst movie I've ever seen--I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. I know this is an over-used, worn-out expression, but this is really the only film I've ever seen where it 100% applies--Snakes on a Plane is SO bad, it's good. It makes for a fantastic laugh and it's a healthier alternative to drugs to forget all your problems and worries and just enjoy a night of watching snakes kill people on a plane. Overall, the ULTIMATE summer party movie. It's original as hell, side-splittingly funny, and 100% awesome--yet it's also the worst film ever produced.

The only problem is, I have no idea whether I give this movie 5 stars or 0 stars. So I've decided on half and half--a 2 1/2.

Just see this movie. SOAP will undoubtedly go down in history as a cult classic.

Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!.......2007-09-03

I wanted to either LOVE this flick for its b-movie campiness or HATE it for its vapid plot and overly earnest delivery. Which is exactly the problem...at times the movie takes itself wayyyyy too seriously, and then other times it is total camp, with horrible dialogue (love some of the awful one-liners!) and over-the-top snake-related violence (and it should go without saying, but if you have any kind of fear of snakes, do not see the film, ever...the snakes are creepy and they do very creepy and nasty and even gory things!) Samuel was great as always and there's some other good casting here but again, I wanted them to either go totally over the top with the camp (which they never did) or try to make the plot and so forth at least reasonably believable (which it certainly was not!) If you've seen disaster films in the past then once they are on the plane it becomes fairly rote; however, if you don't expect TOO much, this isn't a bad way to pass 90-some minutes.

Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?.......2007-09-02

I don't have a problem with movies that require you to switch off your brain as long as they're entertaining. Everybody knows that the premise of the movie and the script are horrible...heck, the producers probably wanted it to be this way. The movie wasn't entertaining in the least though. There's pretty much only one scene in the entire movie which might cause some excitement (Bad Mofo Samuel has to turn on the a/c) but that's about it. Other than that people are bitten in various areas and some folks die.

To recap...this movie isn't so bad that it's good...it's so bad that it is unbelievably bad.

"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!".......2007-09-01

Even the title of this film makes you go, "Uhh-uhh-uhh-uhh!" And what a tag line!

Imagine, if you will, being the bad, bad defendant in a Federal case and knowing that some wimpy kid is going to testify against you. You have options: (A) Let Sir Galahad run his mouth and take your chances, (B) whack the kid on the ground before he opens his piehole, (C) make sure that the plane he's on never gets where it's going.

Option A is basically out. Option B is effective, but unoriginal. Option C is possible, but given increased airline security, things that go "boom" on board planes are a no-no. So what do you do?

Aha! You hire some Manson Family holdout who deals in venomous snakes to load the plane with all manner of scaly, slithering, hissing, fanged Eve deceivers, about a thousand of them, who promptly crawl their way into every crevice of the plane and begin attacking the passengers and crew.

This is the absurd premise of this ridiculously campy film. If you fear snakes, don't watch it. If you don't fear snakes, you might afterward. Or you might just say, "Uhh-uhh-uhh-uhh."

Straight out of Andy Sidaris's HARD TICKET TO HAWAII playbook we are entertained by snakes that, seeking warmth, crawl up girls' skirts, nestle in their cleavages, jump out of toilets to bite guys who are standing up, er, doing their business, drop out of the overhead luggage compartments to eat people's eyes, kill the entire flight crew en masse, and leave the plane flying pilotless over the Pacific in a typhoon. The director occasionally switches tenses, and we get to see the action through the eyes of the snakes. Roll a natural two.

While all this is going on, the passengers are of course screaming in terror, charging from one end of the plane to the other and climbing all over each other to get away from the snakes, even to the point of crushing one another to death. Oh, did I mention that the electrical system fails, making most of this chaos happen IN THE DARK?

There's only one man who can save the day, and that's Samuel L. Jackson as the Federal Marshal who is protecting said material witness. Mr. Jackson puts aside all of his innate dignity to play this role, and is clearly having a good, good time screaming, "Arrrrrrgh!" along with the rest of the cast. Finally though, he recruits a kid who hasn't gotten the high score on Chuck Yeager's Air Combat for PS2 to land the plane. Oh yeah, man.

The gross-out factor is pretty high, but so is the laugh factor. Memorable dialogue includes . . .

Passenger---"There's a snake guy on the phone is gonna help us."

Stewardess---"I never thought I would ever ask this question, but does anybody here know how to fly this plane?"

Guy with first aid kit---"The book says to suck out the poison," to which guy with his pants down says, "WHAT????"

. . . and so on. The scriptwriters leave no cliche unused as they turn the AIRPORT disaster genre totally on its head. Less slapstick, more intelligent and more hard-edged than the AIRPLANE series, this movie will instantly appeal to anybody who understands the art of the practical joke.

Pure, side-splitting yuckiness, SNAKES ON A PLANE will have you looking under your seat the next time you fly the friendly skies.

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Nightmare Indeed!
The Reason Craven is Great
Scary as hell!
The behind the scenes info is well worth the price
Truly one of the best

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Starring: John Saxon , Ronee Blakley , Heather Langenkamp , Amanda Wyss , and Jsu Garcia
Director: Wes Craven
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ASIN: B00000JQTT
Release Date: 2001-08-21

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Wes Craven's 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams. Craven, who only directed one Elm Street sequel (Wes Craven's New Nightmare), takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them all irrelevant in the face of mindless evil. The horror in the film is emotionally raw, in contrast to the overimaginative set pieces of most of the sequels that followed; and the final scene is as deeply unsettling as anything Luis Buñuel ever committed to film. --Tom Keogh

Description

Digitally remastered, this is the original Nightmare film that started it all. Written and directed by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street remains an innovative and shocking horror-fantasy.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Nightmare Indeed!.......2007-08-07

This was the movie in which Freddy Krueger was ACTUALLY scary (to most)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first (no duh) and the best in the series (no duh)

It's eeire and has a great villain.

It also has good performances, great make-up effects, and imaginative dream sequences.

I'd definitely recommend this to all horror fans!

The Reason Craven is Great.......2007-07-26

This movie is classic. It has an original idea that never been done better. All of the the kills, although they are limited, are creative and beautifully done. The acting in this movie is really not bad at all, as it is sometimes in the the first Friday the 13th. This movie has a few good scares, and is not at all just a mindless slasher film. Although lately Wes Craven hasn't been able to release any good movies lately, this movie still shows what great potential the director has.

Scary as hell!.......2007-07-26

A true classic horror movie. This movie use to scare me when I was four, but Freddy is my hero now, thanks to my brother! This movie is still creepy to me, but that's why I watch it! Good special effects, good plot, good acting, etc. This is very frightening and a very original idea. Thank you Wes Craven, and thank you cast and crew for making this frightening classic horror film!

Nancy: "It's only a dream!"
Freddy: "Come to Freddy"
Nancy: "Goddamn you!"

The behind the scenes info is well worth the price.......2007-06-07

I won't go too in depth into the story. If you don't know who Freddy Krueger is then you've been out of the pop cultural loop for well over two decades. What I will say is this DVD gives a great deal of info behind one of the classic slashers of the 1980s. Finally seeing the two alternate endings as well as listening to Wes Craven's commentary on his best movie helped to deepen the respect I have for this masterpiece, and yes, this is an excellent film.

Truly one of the best.......2007-05-31

Freddy's debut. This film has it all, scares, gore, blood, thrills, and Freddy in his best scariest movie. This is a Nightmare On Elm Street, pleasent dreams.

Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)

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lars von trier and bjork????-
Pushing the envelope of your emotions...
Very upsetting but incredible
Good, but....
Purely Putrid

Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Jean-Marc Barr , Catherine Deneuve , Joel Grey , Zeljko Ivanek , and Udo Kier
Director: Lars von Trier
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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ASIN: B00003CXKS
Release Date: 2001-03-20

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Masterpiece or masquerade? Lars von Trier's digicam musical split the critics in two when it debuted at Cannes in 2000. There were those who saw it as a cynical shock-opera from a manipulative charlatan, others wept openly at its scenes of raw emotion and heart-rending intensity. There is, however, no in-between. Dancer in the Dark is that rarest of creatures, a film that dares to push viewers to the limits of their feelings.

In her first and most probably last screen performance (she has foresworn acting after her bruising on-set rows with von Trier), brittle Icelandic chanteuse Björk plays Selma, a Czech immigrant living in a folksy American small town with her young son, Gene. Selma is going blind and so will Gene if she does not arrange an important operation for him. To cover the expense, Selma works every hour she can, cheating on her eye tests so she can keep working at the local factory long after her vision has become too unreliable to work safely. She sublets a house from a local cop, Bill (David Morse), and his wife, Linda (Cara Seymour). When nearly bankrupt Bill asks Selma for a loan, she refuses, but he later returns and steals the money, which she demands back in a furious confrontation. In the ensuing melee, Bill is fatally shot and Selma is arrested and put on trial. Will justice prevail?

Von Trier's passionate, provocative film runs all our emotional resources dry with suspense, giving us occasional flashes into Selma's gold heart and mind with superb song-and-dance numbers she conjures to banish the nightmare (Björk also wrote the score). At some two-and-a-half hours, it's not for lightweights, but anyone bored with today's smug, "ironic" cinema will relish this as an astonishing assault on the senses and a stark reminder of von Trier's uncompromising talent. --Damon Wise

Customer Reviews:

lars von trier and bjork????-.......2007-07-13

of course its 5 stars and you will watch it more than once - the whole cast is just amazing and bjork is even more fascinating than usual!

Pushing the envelope of your emotions..........2007-05-14

A roller coaster ride into the human soul. If you are not moved after the ride, nothing will.

Very upsetting but incredible.......2007-04-15

[...]. This is probably the most upsetting movie I have ever seen, but also the most well-written and well-directed. Bjork gives an incredible performance and soundtrack. It's a beautiful film to watch and appreciate, just be prepared for very emotional scenes that may be very difficult to watch.

Good, but...........2007-02-17

I agree with most viewers that this is a powerful and disturbing film. It can tear a viewer's emotions apart, and perhaps justly so. But good as it is, "Dancer in the Dark" is also a deeply flawed film. First, the musical numbers; they seemed to me purposeless and obtrusive; telling the story straight would have given it more power and polish. Secondly, a classic tragedy also is capable of offering a catharsis, usually obtained by delicatedly handled irony (the villain--David Morse character--could have been divulged to a third party, for instance). Thirdly, filmed in Sweden and supposedly representing rural America, this movie is openly and vitriolically anti-American. Selma's trial is the stupidest trial ever put on film, bigotry admitted, and the system of justice represented here is nothing but a sadistic machine torturing a guitless and noble victim. Yes, injustices like that do exist and should be put on film. Raskolnikov has a dream of a horse being stoned to death. Kafka has Gregor Samsa die in utter loneliness as cockroach. And Fellini gives us Gelsomina dying of unrelieved grief after a brute has killed a friend. Perhaps, Lars von Trier should have tried to imitate those masters. Or did he?

Purely Putrid.......2007-01-29

If I could have given this movie negative stars, I would have. The music is horendous. The howling of my dog is a more soothing sound that listening to Bjork's squaking. Bjork reminds me of a bug-eyed stark raving mad drunken fairy on crack. I liken this movie to watching paint dry. Actually, I think paint drying has more of punch than this movie does.

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Like watching Airplane without all the puns
The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!
Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!
Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?
"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!"

Snakes on a Plane (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson , Julianna Margulies , Nathan Phillips (II) , Rachel Blanchard , and Flex Alexander
Director: David R. Ellis
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Release Date: 2007-01-02

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Description

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Customer Reviews:

Like watching Airplane without all the puns.......2007-09-10

The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!.......2007-09-03

Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!.......2007-09-03

Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?.......2007-09-02

"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!".......2007-09-01

Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines

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This is what the Disney Treasures Collection was made for!
Great for History-Minded Children, as long as you keep talking about it!
Great Collection -- A **Correction** for VICTORY THRU AIR POWER
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Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines

Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines
Starring: Alexander de Seversky , Billy Mitchell (III) , Art Baker , Cliff Edwards , and Clarence Nash
Director: Jack Kinney , James Algar , and Perce Pearce
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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Release Date: 2004-05-18

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