The Lake House (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD-DVD]

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Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock pair up again in what could be described as the anti-Speed: The Lake House, a sweet, relaxed-paced, whimsical romance. When Alex Wyler (Reeves, The Matrix) moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster (Bullock, Miss Congeniality) who's writing from two years in the future. Their correspondence turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. Though the plot of The Lake House sounds potentially static, the movie is skillfully structured and, despite some truly awful dialogue, will exert an emotional pull on anyone willing to embrace the device of the time-travelling mailbox. What the movie really demonstrates, though, is the genuine rapport between Bullock and Reeves; Reeves, though handsome, has a wooden presence--but in his few scenes with Bullock, his stiffness transforms into a palpable yearning. On-screen chemistry is slippery and hard to define, but these two have it. --Bret Fetzer

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A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they're actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

Customer Reviews:

It's Like Pain You Can Watch.......2007-08-28

This is one of those movies that seems like it has a neat premise, which it does, but it's executed about as skillfully as a cripple riding a half-pipe. If you enjoy predictable, ham-fisted romance with just enough of a clever twist to make yourself feel like you're more intelligent than the people who liked "Black Book," than this is the film for you! If, on the other hand, you don't enjoy having an assault of suck on all of your senses, avoid this movie at all costs.

wow.......2007-08-27

I sat in the theater watching this film...and well, I sat in the theater watching the film and tried to understand what was happening to me. The final scenes were clicking into place and all around me people were hushed into irreverent silence.
Then suddenly the actors appear on the screen in what will be the climax of the movie. Behind me an elderly lady begins to cry into her sleeve and I am over come. I too begin to sob. Huge racking waves of hysteria flood out of my body and my cheeks are wet from thick torrents of hot tears.
Here is where you need to pay attention and understand...
I am crying because this was the most ridiculous, useless, pointless, unemotional, waste of time and space, movie I have ever seen.
I am not going to tell you play by play of why, or what could have been done... or maybe it was an editing thing. The truth is that it was not in anyway, shape or form redeemable. This is that movie you see and then have forty minute fantasies of going to the actors homes personally and asking for your ten dollars back, because you certainly won't see the last three hours of your life again.

If you want a great love story with a tiny pinch of supernatural... read "The Time Travelers Wife."

The Lake House (Widescreen Edition).......2007-08-24

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are terrific in this movie---if only it could truly happen!

New "Classic" Romance.......2007-08-24

Being an avid fan of romance, I absolutely loved this movie. The acting is superb and the plot keeps you guessing the outcome until the end. I own this movie and watch it every chance I get. Love it!

I love it !.......2007-08-23

People tend to get too caught up in how this could possibly be happening (The characters are in two different years corresponding with each other. She is in the year 2006 and he is in the year 2004.), and totally miss the wonderful love story.
This is one of my favorite movies, but then I again so is "The Lady in the Water" and a lot of people don't see how clever that is, so I have a different view.

Average customer rating:

OK, but too short, should be a bonus feature with something.
Low-brow humor, true, but still some good parodies
THE FUNNIEST PARODY EVER !!!!!!!!!
Star Warped
Star Warp'd Succeeds Where Spaceballs Failed

Star Warp'd
Starring: David Carty , Milko Davis , Michael Fleming (IV) , John Schuermann , and Pete Schuermann
Director: Pete Schuermann
Manufacturer: Synapse Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000694Z5
Release Date: 2002-05-14

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OK, but too short, should be a bonus feature with something........2007-05-13

Star Warp'd is a clay/computer animation parody based around Star Trek, Star Wars and a bunch of other sci-fi flicks.

Captain Kwirk and the team aboard the parodied Enterprise find themselves going up against a darting Darth Vapor and his goons. something about a rift in time that makes the unbelievable happen or something, do Robocop ends up against the Terminator and E.T lays the smackdown on Alien. A few laughs here and there but overall the whole thing goes for about 30 minutes, then goes into part 2.1 and 2.2 that last about 30 seconds and leave it like there will be a sequel. I guess maybe that was there intent, but I felt like the movie had no ending.

Quite frankly, I'm ok with the fact that I hired this, but if I'd bought it I'd have felt ripped off, because this is more like something you'd enjoy finding as a bonus video to something like "Team America" or "Disaster" or even something to find on youtube. Although it's nicely done and looks good, it just isn't long enough to be a DVD on it's own. Like I said, it should be something as a bonus feature.

It also has a boring featurette that goes almost longer then the movie itself.

Buy it if you most own every parody ever made, or are a die hard fan of Star Wars/Trek parodies, but euhh, it's nothing really special and could have been a lot better. rent it to find out what you'd think if you're interested to find out.

Low-brow humor, true, but still some good parodies.......2005-08-22

Unlike some of the other reviewers here, I liked BOTH this film and "Spaceballs" -- for different reasons. "Spaceballs" is live action satire with plenty of Jewish in-jokes ("Druish princesses" and all). It is exactly what we have come to expect from producer Mel Brooks. "Star Warp'd," on the other hand is a fan-produced parody that is low-budget, low-tech and, in places, low-brow in its "Dark Smell of the Force" fart-and-poop humor -- but I found it funny just the same. (After all, "Spaceballs" stooped to low-brow puns, too -- only they were mostly sexual double entendres.)

Granted, the claymation is rather crude. If you watch the behind-the-scenes feature included on the DVD, you will see that parts of this were literally filmed in somebody's garage. Other parts were generated on home computers. The puppets were made out of Sculpy, and the sets were put together in a couple of days by guys pulling all-nighters (by their own admission.) If you read the credits, you'll see the same half-dozen or so names over and over, filling in all the different production roles -- that in itself struck me as a hilarious satire of blockbuster movies.

The producers themselves called this "guerilla filmmaking" and it should be viewed as such. A film by fans for fans. As such, I think the primitive puppets and homemade sets only add to the satire. This is definitely not the slick product of Paramount or LucasFilms.

For all its primitiveness, "Star Warp'd" does do some original things in terms of effects. It's the first claymation I've seen that combines realistic CGI with puppets. In the opening scene we see a parody of the Star Wars crawl text. (When Spock asks "how did we get into this situtation?" the captain tells him to read the crawl on the viewscreen. Later on, when there's a dogfight, the ships fly through this same text -- after all, it must still be floating around out there somewhere... or was this a reference to "Contact", the film where old TV broadcasts were eventually picked up by aliens in billions of miles away?)

Next comes the title, "The Fandom Menace," and a pretty good rendition of Dark Vapor's ship chasing the ConsolationPrize (The Enterprise with propellers!) From here, it cuts to the Trek puppets -- but only two of the ConsolationPrize's crew, because, as they explain, the rest just weren't in the budget. Future scenes combine CGI with physical sets, spoofing Star Wars, Star Trek, The Terminator, X-Files, RoboCop, 2001, etc. and ending with the destruction of the Terrible Thing that caused the rift in the Space-Time Continuum in the first place. (Sorry, no spoilers here --you'll just have to watch the movie for yourself.)

THE FUNNIEST PARODY EVER !!!!!!!!!.......2002-12-26

I don't remember laughing harder than when i watched this movie. This movie is awesome. A must see for fans of Star Wars/Star trek or any sci fi

Star Warped.......2002-11-13

I thought the movie was great. Involving all those characters in one movie was brilliant. I recommend it if you want to laugh at some stupid stuff or just laugh in general.

Star Warp'd Succeeds Where Spaceballs Failed.......2002-10-30

This 32 minute Claymation movie, which bears all the signs of being a student film project produced on a budget of four packs of bubblegum and a cheese sandwich, does have a redeeming virtue. Unlike the live-action, multimillion dollar budgeted Spaceballs from Mel Brooks, this offering by Pete Schuermann & his band of fellow SF fans is moderately amusing instead of draggingly dull. It's clear that they, unlike Brooks, actually understand the genre, a necessity before it can be sent up.

The plot is simple. A warp in the fabric of spacetime has thrown Darth Vader, James Kirk and Mr. Spock (Star Warp'd uses satirical names, but it's easier to write it this way) into our universe in the present day. Kirk and Spock are informed by 2001's Starchild that the Monolith controlling spacetime is broken and they must fix it before the multiverses fall into a state of complete higgledy-piggledy. (Starchild sounds and acts remarkably like Sean Connery, by the by.) Vader summons the Alien, the Terminator and the Predator to fight for the Bad Guys; while Kirk and Spock summon Robocop and E.T. to fight for the good guys, and they have it out in a way that suggests Celebrity Deathmatch at the World Science Fiction Convention.

The action is mostly an amalgam of the high points in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back; but there are cameos and homages to The X-Files, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The War of the Worlds, Dr. Strangelove, T.J. Hooker and even the old Roadrunner-Wile E. Coyote cartoons. The most satisfying moment, however, may be in the tag, where the Starchild requires both sides to cooperate in the elimination of the greatest menace the universes have ever known.

All in all, it's moderately amusing and fun to watch to pick up the references. Best viewed with a bunch of friends after consuming a six-pack of beer and with popcorn to throw at the screen.

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